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PROGRESSIVE REFERENCE CONSERVATIVEAlchemedia image protection softwareAnthraxVaccine Blogspot This blog will discussmany aspects of anthrax vaccine includinginformation on its economics effectiveness safetymanufacture and other related issues It is intended toprovide an easy way to view official documents andother evidence to gain a reliable well-referencedview of this complex and confusing subject ItAntiwar Ivins anthraxBilderbergnetBioNetrix of Vienna gained funding from CG

Salon Ivins alabimoreCenter for Research on Globalization Crooks and Liars On March 14th 2003 Bruce Ivinsthe alleged anthrax killer and anthrax vaccineinventor was awarded the highest civilian honor ofthe Pentagon by Army Secretary Thomas White Ivins is listed as a co-inventor on two patents for agenetically engineered anthrax vaccine federalrecords show Separately Ivins also is listed as a co-inventor on an application to patent an additive forvarious biodefense vaccinesCreators Molly Ivins TexasDooYoouk UK arms tradeCarlucci S AfricaFireDogLake timeline

SummaryWayne Madsen Report Bruce Ivins amicrobiologist at the US Army MedicalResearch Institute for Infectious Diseases(USAMRIID) at Fort Detrick Marylandreportedly committed suicide after ingestingprescription-strength Tylenol and codeineas the FBI prepared to charge him in theanthrax attacks that took place weeks afterthe 911 attack in 2001 Ivins was partof the FBI team that investigated the anthraxsent in letters to the Senates Democraticleadershipresearch their work Peter Dale Scott GregPalast Lisa Pease Donald Gibson John DeCampDOJ docs on Ivans caseRawStory links between Gulf WarSyndrome Anthrax vaccine Ivins Rove

Bush knew kept quiet enlarge memo more belowCarlyle Group Bioport Battelle MemorialInstituteThe main evidence is already in disputeWikipedia FBI unable to find any anthraxspores at Ivins house or on his otherbelongings nor place him in the New Jerseymailbox where the anthrax was mailedfrom 61] that he was one of 100 peoplewho could have worked with the vial usedin the attacksSalon Ivins alabiHow does David Kelly Judith Miller fit in

ABC News therefore is sitting on theidentities of individuals who were willfullytrying to mislead investigators andplant bogus evidence of Iraqs involvementin the anthrax attacks in a manner similarto the yellowcake uranium documentslinking Saddam Hussein to uraniumpurchases from Niger more below sourceWMR

and go to Leakgate JudithMiller Scooter Libby

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FTLComm The ingredients of bloody capitalismGlobal ResearchHere in Reality and all Carlyle GroupHermes Press Anthrax atrocitiesHistoryCommons Cooperative Research CarlyleGroup anthrax attacks CooperativeResearchHuffington Post Communist ties to suspect andsmoking gun type documents (declassifies thesecrets) of the trumped-up evidence in the march towarIaxis

Woodwardbook smoking gun type documents(declassifies the secrets) of the trumped-up evidence in the march to war more Mother Jones MotherJones outfrontNation Germ Boys and Yes MenRense Guess Who Owns BioPort lets begin withAdm William J Crowe Jr It seems that back whenBush 41was setting up Osama Bin Laden as aFreedom fighter Crowe and the Joint Chiefs wereselling American made weapons-grade Anthrax toSaddam Hussein in the hopes that he would use it onIranSourceWatch Carlyle Group Carlyles directorshipreads like George Walker Bushs inaugural ball invitelist Reagan Secretary of the Treasury James Bakerserves as a senior counselor and Richard G Darmanformer director of the Office of Management andBudget under George Herbert Walker Bush is amanaging director Former President George Bushhas served with Carlyle and Colin L Powell beforebecoming Secretary of State made an appearance onbehalf of the firmThis Modern WorldTrilateral-Commission lovearth networkTruthoutPolaris InstitutePolitical Friendster Ronald Roughead Iraq WarPropagandist Science Applications InternationalCorporation CIAS SAIC hmmm Salon BioPort was founded in 1998 by Ibrahim El-Hibri a Lebanese financier Along with Fuad hisUS-educated son El-Hibri formed BioPort bypurchasing vaccine-making facilities of the state ofMichigan for $2475 million The companys onlyproduct was the anthrax vaccine called BioThraxwhich it sold chiefly to the US military In mid-2004 the company reorganized as EmergentBioSolutionsSalon Glen GreenwaldSalon Glen Greenwald The FBIs selective releaseof documents in the anthrax case (updated below -Update II - Update III) After obtaining a federaljudges approval to unseal the documents in theanthrax investigation the FBI has released selecteddocuments relating to its case against Bruce IvinsThose documents can be viewed hereSchemaRoot Judith MillerSchemaRoot Bob WoodwardThatcher Carlucci missing link between CIA WallStreet American weapons firms Bin LadenVinnel mercenariesWayne Madsen Report Bruce Ivins a microbiologistat the US Army Medical Research Institute for

Bradblog blog poster Washington Postchanges story (original) Aug 1 2008Ivins had no access to dry powderedanthrax at the Fort Detrick lab where heworked and (changed) Aug 2 2008 Asa researcher for the Armys main lab forstudying bioterror agents Ivins had easyaccess to anthrax bacteria including thespecific strain of Bacillus anthracis used inthe attacks on media outlets andcongressional offices in the fall of 2001Judith Miller links to Ivins through a vastbody of false reporting on Iraq WMD andwar mongering leading up to the invasion ofIraq and hoax anthrax letter WikipediaHow are patents and Emergent BioSolutionsfinances affected by these eventsAnthraxVaccine Blogspot timely updatesIvins died of an overdose of acetaminophen codeine his attorney Paul F Kemp Was he suicidedWMR has learned that the late FBI counter-terrorism chief John ONeill and the chiefFBI agent investigating Israel UrbanMoving Systems employees in the NewYork and New Jersey area prior to and after911 were aware of Israels possession ofFort Detrick-type militarized anthraxWMR reported that anthrax was discoveredat the Urban Moving Systems warehouse inWeehawken New Jersey The warehousewas later identified as a Mossad frontoperation The anthrax letters sent to theSenate and American Media in Boca RatonABC News NBC News CBS News andthe New York Post in New York and theSenate were all postmarked from TrentonNew Jersey full articleFrom the Wilderness Jerome Hauer NowOn BioPort Board of Directors DemocracyNow amp The Nation Completely Blow theREAL Story Nation and Democracy NowDr Philip M Zackerie (Dr Zack) theculprit according to Heneghan Zionist more amp WikipediaThe main witness in the case has checkeredpast more on DuleyIs the Ames strain identical to the USAMRIID strain McClatchy andsummary of evidence Wired DispatchThe kappa kappa gamma sorority issue is asmokescreen and irrelevant moreAnthrax attacks were timed to push thePatriot Act thru Congress The Senateanthrax was originally produced at the USArmy Dugway Proving Ground in Utah andsent to Detrick WMR more search termsBrian Ross ABCNews Soviet defectorBiopreparat Alibek Alibekov HadronAdvanced BioSystems NIH grant$800000 link to CIA Hadron presidentEarl Brian PROMIS ProsecutorsManagement Information System Inslawillegal distribution to foreign governmentsintergovernmental stonewalling of crucialdata FBI footdragging WMR see Bush Clinton death list Dr BruceIvins addedPolitical Friendster Ronald Roughead IraqWar Propagandist Science ApplicationsInternational Corporation CIAS SAIC search SAIC Judith MillerFort Detrick personnel are onwhistleblower status concerningknowledge in the investigations Herbert Abrams New York Timesreporter Judith Miller authored many stories

McCain linking anthraxattacks to Iraq November 2001 and in 1989Brsquonai Brsquorith BASFBattelle Memorial Institute The BBC reported thatBattelle Memorial Institute (a favorite Pentagon andCIA contractor and for whom Alibek served asbiological warfare program manager in 1998) conducteda secret biological warfare test in the Nevada desertusing genetically-modified anthrax early last Septemberright before the terrorist attacks The BBC reported thatPatricks (William Capers Patrick III was part of theoriginal Fort Detrick anthrax development program)paper on sending anthrax through the mail was also partof the classified contractor work on the deadly bacterialagent source WMR

Bayer AGBin Laden Family Saudi Arabia ties to Bush 41 Bush43 investmentsBioPort vaccine maker Lansing Michigan once ownedby CarlyleBloomberg The deaths from anthrax sporesanonymously mailed to news organizations andmembers of Congress shook the US seven years ago asthe nation was still reeling from the Sept 11 terroristattacks Postal facilities and some US Senate officeswere closed during the initial investigation Televisionnews anchors Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather weretargeted along with US Senators Tom Daschle andPatrick LeahyCarlyle GroupCarlyle-Calpers CDCCIACiproCiticorp Saudi Arabia linksCNN Laurie Mylroie is the author of Study ofRevenge Saddam Husseins Unfinished War whichoutlines her case that Iraq had a central role in the 1993World Trade Center bombing She served as an adviseron Iraq to the 1992 Clinton presidential campaignMylroie is currently vice-president of Information forDemocracy and the publisher of Iraq News fileCrowe Admiral W CroweDavid Rubenstein William Conway Daniel DAnielloall founders CarlyleDCMilitaryFBIEmergent BiosolutionsFDAFort Dodge Ames Iowa65207106228 (Fox Newsdc10m Ide District of ColumbiaWashington

FOX News The FBI has narrowed its focus to aboutfour suspects in the 6 12-year investigation of thedeadly anthrax attacks of 2001 and at least three ofthose suspects are linked to the Armyrsquos bio-weaponsresearch facility at Fort Detrick in Maryland Amongthe pool of suspects are three scientists mdash a formerdeputy commander a leading anthraxscientist (Ivins) and a microbiologist mdash linked tothe research facility known as USAMRIID The FBIhas collected writing samples from the three scientists inan effort to match them to the writer of anthrax-lacedletters that were mailed to two US senators and at leasttwo news outlets in the fall of 2001 a law enforcementsource confirmedFuad El HibriGenetics Institute

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Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) at Fort DetrickMaryland reportedly committed suicide afteringesting prescription-strength Tylenol and codeineas the FBI prepared to charge him in the anthraxattacks that took place weeks after the 911 attack in2001 Ivins was part of the FBI team thatinvestigated the anthrax sent in letters to the SenatesDemocratic leadershipnotes Ivins part of FBI team investigated Senateanthrax letters notes Project Jefferson Project Jefferson wasongoing around the same time American anthrax aceWilliam C Patrick III (See USAMRIID) wascontracted by Battelle Memorial Institute to develop areport on the ramifications of mailing powderedanthrax much the same as what occurred in the wakeof the Oct anthrax mailings William C Patrick IIIand Russian defector Kanatjan Alibekov (alias KenAlibek -gt)-the worlds two leading anthrax experts-were very close friends Both men held classifiedconsulting contracts with the CIA and BattelleAlibekov was on the CIAs payroll at that timeaccording to Preston and he was fully employed bythe Battelle Memorial Institute (BMI) source911Review

notes American Media in Boca Raton FL (30received an anthrax letter 30 days before published aphoto of Jenna Bush falling down drunk in front of aclub in Boca Rotan FL second to New York Postthird Tom Brokaw at NBC fourth to ABC news fifthto Dan Rather at CBS postmarked Sept 18 2001 inTrenton NJnotes Zack Others have claimed Dr Philip Zackwho worked at Ft Detrick where the anthrax camefrom is a person of interest 50] Dr Philip Zack hadthe means access to weaponized anthrax exhibitedhostile behaviours towards Dr Ayaad Assaad hiscolleague and was caught on a security video twomonths after being fired entering withoutauthorization a lab where anthrax samples wentmissing The FBI knew of Zack and his unauthorizedaccess to the lab and Assaad had been questioned bythe FBI in connection with the attacksWikipedia Vanity Fair The Soviets hadnt let the 1972biological-and-toxin weapons convention stop themfrom producing 4500 metric tons of anthrax per yearBut when the Americans signed it they put BillPatrick out to pasture and then seemingly forgot theart developed by William C Patrick III in 1959 file more search terms notes Emergent Biosolutions Inc is a profitablemultinational biopharmaceutical company dedicatedto one simple missionmdashWe develop manufactureand commercialize immunobiotics consisting ofvaccines and therapeutics that assist the bodysimmune system to prevent or treat disease Ourproducts target infectious diseases and other medicalconditions that have resulted in significant unmet orunderserved public health needs Our marketedproduct BioThraxreg (Anthrax Vaccine Adsorbed) isthe only vaccine approved by the US Food and DrugAdministration for the prevention of anthraxinfection antraxWebFairy Hatfill Rhodesia His admission wasarranged by Robert Burns Symington an anatomyprofessor and neo-Nazi Symington is stronglybelieved to have worked with the Ian Smith-led whitesupremacist regime on its biological warfare project

later found to be misleading or downrightfalse By Herbert L Abrams JulyAugust2004 pp 56-64 (vol 60 no 04) copy 2004Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists more Judith Miller subpoena DemocraticUnderground Dr Nass has beenone of the whistle blowers on the AnthraxVaccines and military contracts with thehighly suspect Bioport EmergentBiosolutions company that Ivins worked forwhile they were trying to secure a contractWired Rep Rush Holt questionsYahoo Groups Raw A 2001 memorandumfrom former White House Deputy Chief ofStaff Karl Rove to then-DeputySecretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitzindicates that the White House knew ofproblems relating to the Gulf WarSyndrome and the militarys controversialanthrax vaccine New York DailyNews Rove wrote I do think we need toexamine the issues of both Gulf WarSyndrome and the Anthrax vaccine and howthey can be dealt with They are politicalproblems for usSummary of prosecutor evidence Bentonite AP Daschle letter issue file AFIP test or the initial analysis of theDaschle letter at USAMRIID both of whichindicated that the spores were pure andcoated with a silica preparation Given thatthere is really no way Ivins could haveproduced and mailed this material using therelatively primitive equipment he had at hisdisposal SalonIranChamber history chronology armingIraq with chemical biological weaponsanthrax IOM report anthrax vaccine safeScoop David Kelly murder Judith Miller fileRep Rush Holt letter to FBI Wikisource ampMother Jonesfile NYT Judith Miller Grand Jury articleTerry Jupp file GuardianBefore the invasion Dr Steven Hatfill theaccused anthrax killer had headed a parallelUS program to construct replica Iraqibioweapons trailers of the type which neverexisted in Iraq but which the Bush andBlair governments used to justify theinvasion DailyKOS

Judith Miller is the link between

Dr Ivins and the Neo-con push to war (Leakgate) and theAIPAC espionage trial

Vulture Propagandists ConcernsContinue to Mount on USBioweapons Violations below

continued on Carlyle page

AnthraxInvestigation Anthrax Articles From USNews amp World Report In 1999 while working ata Virginia defense company called SAIC Hatfillcommissioned a classified report that included an

Gilead Science 50 of the Gilead Sciences Inc stock isowned by Donald Rumsfeld Tony Blair CindyMcCain FBI Division 5 William Morris Agency TomBrokaw Brokaw has replaced the late Tim Russert ashost of NBCs alleged interview show Meet the Press Retired Republican Senator William Frist of Tennesseehas major investments in the bird flu vaccine virusHaliburton If Bush blames the Democrats for the IraqWar failure they will lose the 2008 election

Harretz The Rosen-Weissman trial is looming large just and Harretz negate the governments contention thatthe information defendants obtained and disclosed wasNDI National Defense Information] by showing that thisinformation was neither closely held by the USgovernment nor were the disclosures of this informationdamaging to the USHoechst AGI G Farben Rockefeller cartelInstitute for Genomic ResearchDr Joyce M Carter declared Cliff Baxter suicideJihad SpunnetJudithMillercom She now writes for severalpublications -- The Wall Street Journal Los AngelesTimes and New York Sun among them She alsoappears on television as a commentator on nationalsecurity focusing on the Middle East andcounterterrorism and the need to strike a delicatebalance between protecting both national security andAmerican civil liberties in a post-911 world indexLA TimesLA Times Adm William Crowe anthrax Bioport IranClinton file He also ran the nationrsquos only licensedmanufacturer of anthrax and rabies vaccine BioPortCorpMcCain Iraq anthrax YouTube video DavidLetterman might go back to selling camels Do youknow what Osama bin Laden is going to be onHalloween MerckMonath Dr Thomas

enlarge book cover Laurie Mylroie there is an additive in that anthrax bentonite whichis used to cause the anthrax to not stick together andfloat in the air Iraq is the only party known to haveproduced anthrax with bentonite She was an advisorto the Bill Clinton campaign in 1992National Veterinary Services LabNationmaster no proof that Bushs or bin Laden familyinvested in BioPortNewsweek Joe Klein admitted to writing PrimaryColors Patrick investigation OravaxSenate Armed Services reportSyntek TechnologiesOravax Dr Thomas MonathPhrmaPortonDownspitfirelistRBHam Archives

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Africas Sunday Mirror reported in 2002 TheZimbabwe authorities have since established thatSmiths] security forces particularly the much fearedSelous Scouts stealthily distributed the deadlyanthrax spore among the hungry cattle of theRhodesian Tribal Trust Lands where most Africanslived and seeded cholera into the riversWhiteWraithe Green file

anthrax-by-mail scenarioFrederick News Post FPD is investigating claims by atherapist ( Jean Duley who treated Ivins at theComprehensive Counseling Associates) that Ivinstried to poison people in 2000 she described him ashomicidal and threatening more on Duley and leakpeople saw him buying envelopes at the PO survivor David Hose worked at the diplomatic mailcenter Sterling Va Hose is skeptical of US findings Mary Morris wife of victim Thomas Morris Jr iswaiting for more evidence Mercury NewsWikipedia The United States Army Medical ResearchInstitute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIIDpronounced you-SAM-rid) is a military researchinstitute for medicine based at Fort DetrickFrederick Maryland used for research of infectiousdisease that may have defensive applications againstbiological warfare that would protect the citizens ofthe United States New World Peace BioPort Anthrax hoax FBIincriminated in anthrax mailings cover-up MenaArkansas Battelle Memorial Institute Orlando Bosch Otto Reich (Assistant Secretary ofState for Western Hemisphere Affairs)What Really Happened anthrax hoax BioPort Wikipedia Whitewash no mention of Iran Iraq waror anthrax He sat on the Boards of Texaco MerrillLynch Pfizer Norfolk Southern Corporation andGeneral Dynamics At the time of his death Croweserved as the Chairman of the Board of Visitors forthe International Programs Center of the University ofOklahoma He also served as an advisory boardmember for GlobalOptions Inc an international riskmanagement and business solutions companyheadquartered in Washington DCWikipedia Patriot Act

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Memo April 25 2001 memorandum for Paul Wolfowitz from Karl Rove subject Gulf War Syndrome and Anthrax Here is material which hasbeen sent to me by Ross Perot regarding the Gulf War Syndrome as well as some material on the Anthrax vaccine problem I do think we need to examine the issues of bothGulf War Syndrome and the Anthrax vaccine and how they can be delt with They are political problems for us W00554 01 source RawStory Memo text April 25 2001 memorandum for Paul Wolfowitz from Karl Rove subject Gulf War Syndrome and Anthrax Here is material which has been sent to me byRoss Perot regarding the Gulf War Syndrome as well as some material on the Anthrax vaccine problem He also offered me a packet of materials from the Lyndon LaRouchecrowd about Richard Armitage but I turned him down I do think we need to examine the issues of both Gulf War Syndrome and the Anthrax vaccine and how they can be deltwith They are political problems for us W00554 01AnthraxVaccineorg Remember this is one of the most complex expensive cases in the FBIs history So after spending hundreds of thousands of man-hours on the case you can besure the FBI has also figured out that the sorority angle leads nowhere Yet the documents the FBI released yesterday place great emphasis on Ivins obsession with kappa kappagamma sorority The only explanation is the FBIs desire to publicly sully Ivins character not solve the caseThe UK Guardian revealed Monday that the US and Britain jointly ran a highly secret program to build radiological Dirty Bombs A 2002 accidental detonation killed a Britishscientist a long-time colleague of Dr David Kelly whose death a year later led to the major scandal over the British Governments role in the Iraq WMD deception Before theinvasion Dr Steven Hatfill the accused anthrax killer had headed a parallel US program to construct replica Iraqi bioweapons trailers of the type which never existed in Iraq butwhich the Bush and Blair governments used to justify the invasion Judy Miller was a key common figure in both the Kelly and Hatfill stories one which also involves formerUndersecratary of Defense for Intelligence Stephen Cambone and Gen Petraeus in the fraudulent program to sell the world on the invasion of Iraq Heneghan Myspace and Stewart Webb It was Zackerie who previously supervised Ivins that was photographed handling the strain of lethal anthrax that wound up in theenvelopes sent after 911Again the use of DNA splicing enabled Zackerie to turn vaccines into the actual lethal strains of anthrax It was Zackerie who previously supervisedIvins that was photographed handling the strain of lethal anthrax that wound up in the envelopes sent after 911Again the use of DNA splicing enabled Zackerie to turn vaccinesinto the actual lethal strains of anthrax Note It is clear now that the late Bruce Ivins is the latest mass media-US government patsy that will be used by the criminal BushfraudILLEGAL occupation government to take the fall for its crimesItem Let us remember that no official autopsy has been released on the death of Bruce IvinsNote Brian Ross ieRosenberg of ABC News put out the false story leaked to him by the Bushfraud Administration that Iraq was behind the post 911 anthrax letters when Ross was completely awareas was the Bushfraud Administration that it was Israeli MOSSAD agent Dr Philip M Zackerie and then Assistant US Attorney General and TRAITOR Michael Chertoff thatcoordinated the anthrax letters to be circulated through the compromised US-New Jersey postal service to their destinations on the East Coast Item It was the well reported911 linked New Jersey Israeli Urban Moving Systems gang that assisted in the anthrax letters being mailed Again folks there is NO proof at all that Bruce Ivins sent anyanthrax letters There was NO Bushfraud Justice Department case against Dr Steven Hatfill and there was NO Justice Department case against the late Bruce Ivins Tom HeneghanAugust 22008WMR Evidence mounts that Bruce Ivins was victim not perp in anthrax case The FBI appears to have used a typical ploy in their case against Fort Detrick anthrax scientistBruce Ivins the use of a dubious witness Jean Carol Duley to claim that Ivins was a homicidal individual bent on killing his co-workers and that she had information that he tried tomurder people in the past using poisons It now turns out that Duley has her own checkered past and is hardly a reputable witness against Ivins in a case that the New York Times hasreported never went beyond the grand jury phase in Washington due to the existence of only circumstantial evidence against Ivins In addition the Frederick News Post reported thatFBI agents removed two computers from the C Burr Artz public library in Frederick and transported them to the FBIs Washington Field Office a clear indication that the anthraxinvestigation is far from over However that fact has not deterred Justice Department sources from claiming that the anthrax case is now closed with Ivins suicide from aTylenol an codeine overdose sans autopsy Duley has had convictions for driving under the influence conviction and driving while impaired in Frederick County Marylandaccording to publicly-available data In addition in 1992 a domestic battery complaint was brought against Duley in Montgomery County Maryland and she was also charged inMaryland the same year with possession of drug paraphernalia full story

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AnthraxVaccineorg This website was designed as a source of accurate information on the US human anthrax vaccine originally named MDPH-PA or AVA and renamed BioThraxin January 2002 The vaccine has been given to over 1400000 servicemembers and some civilians since March 1998 Information on smallpox vaccine and bioterrorism was addedlater I am a practicing physician This page includes some of my writings on these subjects including four Congressional testimonies and a variety of other materials that I hopewill be useful for those persons making a decision about taking the vaccine dealing with bioterrorism or those doing scholarly research on either subject Meryl Nass MDDiplomate American Board of Internal Medicine Mount Desert Island Hospital Bar Harbor Maine 04609 (207) 288-5082 ext 220 (207)-244-9165Fort Detrick scientist suspect in anthrax attacks dead from apparent suicide in Maryland Bruce Ivins helped FBI analyze anthrax samples Suicide or not investigation now showsone employee of US Army facility and possibly others may have targeted US citizens in bio-terrorist attackAP Anthrax scientist Bruce E Ivins 62 who worked for the past 18 years at the governments biodefense labs at Fort Detrick Md had been told about the impending prosecutionthe Los Angeles Times reported for Friday editions The laboratory has been at the center of the FBIs investigation of the anthrax attacks which killed five people and MercuryNewsBloomberg Ivinss death is being investigated as an apparent suicide from a drug overdose said Lieutenant Shawn Martyak of the Frederick Police Departments criminalinvestigation division Based on laboratory test results of blood taken from the body the state medical examiner ``determined that an autopsy wouldnt be necessary to determine thecause of death Martyak saidWMR In Oct 2001 ABC News investigative reporter Brian Ross claimed that three to four well placed sources told him that the chemical bentonite was used in the anthrax sentthrough the US postal system Ross also reported that bentonite was a signature component in Saddam Husseins biological weapons Ivins was one of the scientists who tested theDaschle and Leahy letters and no bentonite was ever found in the anthrax used in the letters Ross later claimed that bentonite was found in the anthrax letters tested at Fort DetrickHowever it is now known that the anthrax used in the attacks originated from Fort Detrick and WMR reported the postal attack anthrax came from an aerosolized anthrax laboratoryat the Dugway Proving Ground in Utah ABC News therefore is sitting on the identities of individuals who were willfully trying to misleadinvestigators and plant bogus evidence of Iraqs involvement in the anthrax attacks in a manner similar to the yellowcake uraniumdocuments linking Saddam Hussein to uranium purchases from NigerWikipedia The United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID pronounced you-SAM-rid) is a military research institute for medicine based atFort Detrick Frederick Maryland used for research of infectious disease that may have defensive applications against biological warfare that would protect the citizens of the UnitedStates USAMRIID is the only United States Department of Defense laboratory equipped to study highly hazardous viruses at Biosafety Level 4 USAMRIID is a critical resourcefor the Army the Department of Defense and the United States collaborate with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention the World Health Organization and academiccenters of excellence worldwide The research institute was the first bio-facility of its type to research the Ames strain of anthrax determined through genetic analysis to be thebacterium used in the 2001 anthrax attacks 1] 2]Wikipedia On October 12 2001 Judith Miller opened an anthrax hoax letter mailed to her New York Times office The 2001 anthrax attacks had begun occurring in the wake of theSeptember 11 2001 attacks with anthrax-laced letters sent to ABC News CBS News NBC News and the New York Post all in New York City as well as the National Enquirer inBoca Raton Florida Two additional letters (with a higher grade of anthrax) were sent on October 9 2001 to Senators Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy in Washington Twenty-twopeople were sickened five died The crime has never been solved Miller was the only major US media reporter and the New York Times the only major US mediaorganization to be victimized by a fake anthrax letter in the fall of 2001 Miller had reported extensively on the subject of biological threats and had recently co-authored a bookon bio-terrorism Germs Biological Weapons and Americas Secret War which had been published on October 2 2001 Miller also co-authored an article on Pentagon plans todevelop a more potent version of weaponized anthrax US Germ Warfare Research Pushes Treaty Limits published in the New York Times on September 4 2001 weeks beforethe first anthrax mailingsWikipedia On August 6 2008 federal prosecutors declared Ivins to be the sole culprit of the crime when Jeffrey Taylor the US attorney for the District of Columbia laid out thecase against Ivins to the public The main evidence is already in dispute Taylor stated The genetically unique parent material of the anthrax spores was created and solelymaintained by Dr Ivins But other experts disagree including biological warfare and anthrax expert Dr Meryl Nass who stated Let me reiterate No matter how good themicrobial forensics may be they can only at best link the anthrax to a particular strain and lab They cannot link it to any individual At least 10 scientists had regular access to thelaboratory and its anthrax stock and possibly quite a few more counting visitors from other institutions and workers at laboratories in Ohio and New Mexico that had receivedanthrax samples from the flaskKohlberg Kravis Roberts amp Co buyout firm Carlucci to become Chairman ermitus David M Rubenstein - cofounder John Major heads EU arm citynet Blackstone Group MitchDaniels was top executive of Eli Lilly Condoleeza Rice on board of Chevron Oil Andrew Card General Motors Joeseph Hagin Chiquita Brands Linda Fisher Monsanto JSteven Griles Environmental Strategies National Mining Association Rumsfeld headed GD Searle and General Signal Corp Carlyle Bex an affiliate of CG Abdullah Bin Laden1994 graduate of Harvard Major former PM England problem with Carlyle Carlyle preferred bidder to take over British Qinetiq firm Nancy Dorn Registered Chinese Agentnow director of OMB Richard Darman Cadbury-Schweppes Baker Botts Grace amp Lyles Dev Co Atlanta W Lyles Carr III Adams National Bank FTR347 FrankCarlucci James Baker III Houston Osama bin Laden Bill Clinton

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Oct 15 2001 The Daschle letter was opened on October 15 2001 on the 6th floor ofthe Senators Hart Senate Office Building and all 18 people within the area ofDaschles office tested positive for anthrax as well as 7 of 25 who worked on the 5thfloor as an open staircase linked the two offices Sam Seder ShowOct 16 2001 CNNHealth reports Ninety offices of Planned Parenthood and at least

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Timeline1950 LONDON (Reuters) - Former British servicemen who were guinea pigs inchemical weapons trials during the Cold War won 3 million pounds in compensationand an apology from the government (2006) The 360 surviving ex-militarypersonnel were subjected to tests at the Porton Down (search Porton Down anthrax)chemical warfare facility The Ministry of Defence said they will get about 8000pounds each In a parliamentary statement defence minister Derek Twigg said it wasa full and final settlement to those who had participated in the trials during the1950s and 1960s Wikipedia Alex Constantine MacGill Courant (link toIvins case)1959 Vanity Fair The Soviets hadnt let the 1972 biological-and-toxin weaponsconvention stop them from producing 4500 metric tons of anthrax per year But whenthe Americans signed it they put Bill Patrick out to pasture and then seemingly forgotthe art developed by William C Patrick III in 1959 file more terms Bacillusanthracis trillion spores per gram remove electrostatic charge to prevent clumpingacetone extraction 1969 Richard Nixon shut down Americas offensive bioweapons program 1972 1972 biological-and-toxin weapons convention1979 The Ames strain did not come from the sleepy Iowa college town of the samename or from anywhere else in Iowa It was a Texas strain cultured from a Texascow in 1979 federal officials now say Sam Seder Show Wikipedia Anthraxwhitewash chronology1982 The Big Chill by Laura Rozen The Nation linking Judith Millers jailingto the AIPAC Franklin investigation In early 80s Steve Rosen shifted AIPAC tofar right ideology and focused on Iran Miller war propagandist agent of thegovernment embedded with troops in Iraq given clearance to classified material(2003) in direct conflict with her job as a journalist1982 Scoop It was before and during David Kellyrsquos tenure at Porton Down that itbecame involved with South Africarsquos bioweapon program named Project Coast Acardiologist named Wouter Basson who was the personal physician of South AfricanPrime Minister Botha headed the projectJul 1982 Steven Rosen (Wikipedia) was employed as the Director of Foreign PolicyIssues for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) search JudithMiller Steve Rosen DailyKOSStephen Rosen and Richard Perle may have worked together as early as 1982Dailykos and The New Yorker Miller and the New York Times search JudithMiller Richard PerleMartin Indyk formed a research department for AIPAC EIR and see WINEP see alsoLeon Fuerth 1984 Scoop In 1984 Dr David Kelly was invited by the Ministry of Defense (MoD)to take the position of chief microbiologist at its secret facility at Porton Down1986 SchemaRoot Judith Miller In 1986 she wrote numerous of articles on Libyathus contributing to a massive disinformation campaign on Khadafi which wascoordinated by Admiral Poindexter (Iran Contra) Ghorbanifar Oliver North MichaelLedeen1986 Global Research United States exports of biological materials to IraqCompromising the credibility of international law and see article in Washington Postby Bob Woodward ldquoThe Central Intelligence Agency has been secretly supplyingIraq with detailed intelligence including data from sensitive US satellitereconnaissance photography to assist Iraqi bombing raids on Irans oil terminals andpower plants in the war between the two nations according to informed sources Theinformation has been flowing to Iraq for nearly two yearsrdquo1987 Scoop At the Hutton inquiry Brian Jones testified as to David Kellyrsquosinvolvement with the highest security clearance in analyzing top-secret informationregarding biological weapons of the UK and other governments Jones was directorof a department on the Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS) That involvement beginningin 1987 presumably continued until his death and through his several other jobs asweapons ldquoinspectorrdquo in Russia and (for UNSCOM) in IraqJan 1989 Think Progress An article titled ldquoIraq may have gotten bacteria from USlabrdquo was published in the Washington Post on January 29 1989 The article quoted aspeech in which John McCain said the following ldquo We] know that Iraq has alreadymisused international agreements to obtain tularemia from the UShellip We have everyreason to assume that Iraq may soon weaponize two of the three most lethal biotoxins- anthrax and tularemiardquo Random Lunatic News1989 WMR The discovery of Carlyle documents with WMD components at Al Bakrby US Army counter-intelligence agents closes the loop on the involvement of Bush Iand Baker in supplying Saddam Hussein with his deadliest weapons Bush and Bakerare reportedly shareholders in Houston-based Tanox Biosystems sued by Gulf WarSyndrome sufferers for shipping deadly biological agents to Iraq before Desert StormTanox has also been accused of infecting death row inmates at the Texas State Prisonin Huntsville with Mycoplasma fermentans (incognitus) eventually passing theresults if the tests to the US Armys Fort Detrick bio-weapons laboratory Anotherdefendant in the Gulf War veterans suit is Rhone-Poulenc headquartered in SheltonConnecticut and operator of a chemical plant in Houston (After merger with

80 clinics of the National Abortion Federation receive envelopes containing powderysubstances (not anthrax) Sam Seder ShowOct 16 2001 Ivins coworker emails Bruce has been an absolute manic basket casethe last few days FireDogLakeJudy Millers War Dissident Voice Lay all Judith Millers New York Times storiesend to end from late 2001 to June 2003 and you get a desolate picture of a reporterwith an agenda both manipulated and being manipulated by US government officialsIraqi exiles and defectors an entire Noahs Ark of scam artists Alexander CockburnOct 18 2001 Nerve attack scare in White House situation room FireDogLakeOct 18 2001 John McCain links anthrax attack to Iraq and Phase II of war on terror FireDogLakeOct 21 2001 First of two DC postal workers dies of anthrax poisoning FireDogLakeOct 22 2001 Secret Service reports traces of anthrax on letter opening machine inWhite HouseOct 25 2001 The Washington Post reports that the spores in the Daschle letter hadbeen using technology so sophisticated that it almost certainly came from the UnitedStates Iraq or the former Soviet Union Office of Homeland Security DirectorTom Ridge said the bacterial spores that caused anthrax outbreaks in Florida NewYork and Washington belong to Ames strainOct 24-25 2001 USA PATRIOT ACT passes HouseOct 26 2001 Wikipedia The USA PATRIOT Act signed into law on October 262001 The acronym stands for Uniting and Strengthening America by ProvidingAppropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (PublicLaw PubL 107-56)Oct 26 2001 USA PATRIOT signed into law ABC News cites well-placed sources(now explained to be then current and former scientists conducting analysis of theanthrax) with bentonite claimOct 28 2001 Miller Germs a bestseller Miller Engelberg Broad and also envelopewith white powderhmmmBioport NewsFollowupOct 29 2001 General John Parker mis-reports that silica found in anthrax sample2001 FAS Federation of American Scientists analysis of anthrax attacksOct 13 2001 CIDRAP Chronology of anthrax events including Judith MillerOct 14 2001 Miller Engelberg Broad book Germs The Ultimate Weaponclimbing best seller lists And Miller gets white powder envelope not anthrax byOct 28 Germs 1Counterpunch and AbramsMiller David Kelly Spiked Online and see Huffington Post timeline on linksbetween UK Blair Kelly suicide and Miller articleOct 21 2001 DOJ indictment charged Misbah Khan of Karachi Pakistan withhacking into AIPACs computer server in Silver Spring Maryland on November 12000Nov 07 2001 Wikipedia Tom Ridge dismissed the bentonite claim but was ignoredby the mediasee NewsFollowUpcom on Bioport

McCain linking anthrax attacks to Iraq November2001 Letterman Dec 20 2001 Miller published a Times front-page story about an Iraqi engineer whoclaimed knowledge of twenty WMD sites in Iraq with many caveats but all latershown to be just hype and see AbramsThe man in the street does not notice the devil even when the devil is holding him bythe throatDec 20 2001 Miller wrote at length about Iraqi defector Adnan Ihsan Saeed AlHaideri (made available by Chalabis Iraqi National Congress) who personallyworked on renovations of secret facilities for biological chemical and nuclearweapons His] account gives new clues about the types and possible location ofillegal laboratories facilities and storage sites 2002 notes The UK Guardian revealed Monday that the US and Britain jointly ran ahighly secret program to build radiological Dirty Bombs A 2002 accidentaldetonation killed a British scientist a long-time colleague of Dr David Kelly whosedeath a year later led to the major scandal over the British Governments role in theIraq WMD deception and Terry Jupp a scientist with the Ministry of Defencewas engulfed in flames during a joint Anglo-American counter-terrorism projectintended to discover more about al-Qaidas bomb-making capacitiesMar 7 2002 New York Times The BioPort vaccine first approved by the FDA in1970 (by Serle Rumsfeld CEO) relies on technology that dates from the 1950s TheDefense Department is working on an alternative and clinical trials may begin asearly as this yearApr 2002 AnthraxInvestigation Anthrax Articles From US News amp World Report

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Hoetsch Rhone-Poulenc is now known as Aventis) DeBattos discovery that theCarlyle shipment of the chem-bio weapons was made through Spanish and Frenchintermediaries is bolstered by the fact that two firms identified by Gulf War plaintiffsone Spanish -- Cades -- and the other French -- Rhone Poulenc -- are identified aspass through firms for US shipments of nerve and mustard gas agents to Saddam inthe 1980s 1989 Scoop In 1989 Vladimir Pasechnik head of the Soviet bioweapons program atits Biopreparat facility defected to the UK His revelations of Soviet activity createda diplomatic uproar over violations of the 1972 treaty banning such activity that hadbeen pushed and signed by the UK US and USSR1990 Laurie Mylroie more co-authored with Miller Iraq book ldquoSaddam Husseinand the Crisis in the Gulf William Bowles and Laurie Mylroie Regan Books animprint of Harper Collins Publishers released her book in paperback Harper Collinsis owned by Rupert Murdoch who also owns the Fox News Channel which bookedLaurie Mylroie as an Iraq expert during the build-up to the war WorldNetDaily Links between Gulf War and Iraq War

Judith Miller New York TimesCheney Libby --- war propagandistsLaurie Mylroie WikpediaOct 1992 Holland plane crash Sarin gas HistoryCommons El Al Flight LY1862en route from New York to Tel Aviv crashes into a block of apartment buildingsshortly after take-off from Schiphol Airport a Boeing 747 was carrying severaltons of chemicals including hydrofluoric acid isopro-panol and dimethylmethylphosphonate (DMMP)mdashthree of the four chemicals used in the production ofsarin nerve gas The shipment of chemicalsmdashapproved by the US commercedepartmentmdashreportedly came from Solkatronic Chemicals Inc of MorrisvillePennsylvania and its final destination was the Institute for Biological Research (IIBR)in Ness Ziona near Tel Aviv Israel which is reported to be the ldquoIsraeli military andintelligence communityrsquos front organization for the development testing andproduction of chemical and biological weaponsrdquo more belowFeb 1994 IranChamber February 1994 Senator Riegle from Michigan chairman ofthe Senate Banking Committee testifies before the senate revealing large USshipments of dual-use biological and chemical agents to Iraq that may have been usedagainst US troops in the Gulf War and probably was the cause of the illness known asGulf War Syndrome 1995 BioPort WebFairy The company was founded on June 22 1995 by Yoav Sterna former avionics system officer specializing in F-15 A-4 Mirage and Kfir fighterjets for the Israeli Air Force He was also commander of a flight training unit and adeputy squadron commander The BioPort web site reports that one Zive R Nedivihas been the CEO president and a director of the company since June 1995 MrNedivi also served in the Israeli Air Force and was the founder of the predecessor ofthe company an indirectly wholly-owned subsidiary of Rada Electronic IndustriesLtd and see Ratical put option activity before 9111996 Michigan Governor John Engler began privatization process of Michigansvaccine facility1997 DOD funded improvements $75 million New York Times Judith Miller Aug5 2002 (article left)Dec 1997 New York Times The situation changed in December 1997 when theClinton Administration threatened to go to war over Baghdads intransigence ingiving free access to United Nations inspectors Defense Secretary William S Cohenannounced that all American troops and reservists would get anthrax shots -- a firstfor the military Suddenly the old plant was a hot property Michigan reopenedthe bidding in January and a dozen companies considered the plant Five made firmoffers and in late May the Pentagon made the deal even sweeter by announcingplans to invest an additional $15 million to double the plants vaccine output 1997 Scoop Dr Kelly and Christopher Davis of the UK and US microbiologyexperts debriefed Pasechnik Davis who comes out of MoD Intelligence was at thetime an employee of Veridian Corp which has an interesting history According tomind control researcher David Hoffman in 1946 Cornell Aeronautical Laboratorywas founded including the ldquoFund for the Study of Human Ecologyrdquo The ldquofundrdquo wasa CIA financing conduit for mind control experiments by eacutemigreacute Nazi scientists andothers under the direction of CIA doctors Sidney Gotttlieb Ewen Cameron and LouisJolyn West Gottlieb of course was the director of the CIArsquos infamous MK-ULTRAmind control program Cornell was later absorbed into Calspan AdvancedTechnology Center in Buffalo NY The company continued experiments in mindcontrol and artificial intelligence In 1997 Calspan was in turn absorbed by Veridian

In 1999 while working at a Virginia defense company called SAIC Hatfillcommissioned a classified report that included an anthrax-by-mail scenarioMay 9 2002 Wikipedia New Scientist published an article that reported The DNAsequence of the anthrax sent through the US mail in 2001 has been revealed andconfirms suspicions that the bacteria originally came from a US military laboratoryThe data released uses codenames for the reference strains against which the attackstrain was compared The two reference strains that appear identical to the attackstrain most likely originated at the US Army Medical Research Institute for InfectiousDiseases at Fort Detrick (USAMRIID) Maryland The new work also shows thatsubstantial genetic differences can emerge in two samples of an anthrax cultureseparated for only three years This means the attackers anthrax was not separatedfrom its ancestors at USAMRIID for many generations Sep 2006 AnthraxInvestigation Anthrax Articles From US News amp World Report In 1999 while working at a Virginia defense company called SAIC Hatfillcommissioned a classified report that included an anthrax-by-mail scenarioAug 26 2002 Cheney speech widely interpreted as main signal of Bush Iraq war WMD bio chemical nuclearSept 18 2002 Millers piece on the UN Monitoring Verification and InspectionCommission (UNMOVIC) cast doubt on its ability to uncover Iraqi WMD Shequoted David Kay as believing that UN inspectors were on a mission impossibleThey are weaker than an earlier inspection team according to former inspectorRichard Spertzel Inspectors claimed that Hans Blix UNMOVIC head and the chiefchemical and biological weapons inspector had eliminated many of the more

aggressive inspectors from his organization NFU Herbert Abrams pageOct 2002 FAS Update On this first anniversary of the anthrax attacks a number ofconclusions can be drawn even without an arrest by the FBI First the strain andproperties of the weaponized anthrax found in the letters show that it originated withinthe US biodefense program where the necessary expertise and access are foundGovernment officials recognized that the anthrax source was domestic less than twoweeks after they learned of the letters and nothing in their investigation has led themto say otherwise since moreWhat Really Happened - Israeli Spying Archives What Really Happened -Israeli Spying ArchivesAJR article Judith Miller Washington bureau chief for The Progressive magazine Will eventually be compared to Jason Blair AbramsHollinger International Conrad Black Lady Barbara Amiel Black Hollingerpublishes Chicago Sun-Times (Robert Novak) Jerusalem Post Sydney MorningHerald Iraq4uKarl Rove amp Co and Praxis List Company Bush Texas re-election campaign Texas ObserverNov 07 2001 Tom Ridge dismissed the bentonite claim but was ignored by themediaNov 12 2002 Miller highlighted the preparation for and likelihood of Iraqi use ofpoison gas Iraq has ordered large quantities of a drug that can be used to counter theeffects of nerve gas she wrote According to administration officials If the Iraqiswere going to use nerve agent they would want to take such] steps to protect their

own soldiers NFU Herbert Abrams pageDec 3 2002 the threat was biowarfare Iraq obtained a particularly virulent strain ofsmallpox from a Russian scientist she wrote citing an unnamed informant NFU

Herbert Abrams pageJan 24 2002 Miller alluded again to the impotence of the international inspectionregime and the usefulness of Chalabis defectors Because international inspectorswere unlikely to find evidence that Iraq was hiding weapons of mass destruction shesaid the Bush administration was preparing its own assessment that would relyheavily on Iraqi defectors Some of the most valuable information came from acontractor who fled Iraq in 2001 she wrote This informant Haideri whom Millerhad discussed at length on December 20 claimed that chemical and biologicalweapons laboratories were hidden beneath hospitals and inside presidential palacesReporting on an interview with Hans Blix on January 30 2003 she noted hiscontradiction of Secretary of State Colin Powells claim that the inspectors had foundthat Iraqi officials were hiding and moving illicit materials He had seen no

persuasive indications of Iraqi ties to Al Qaeda NFU Herbert Abrams pageJan 12 2003 Miller described the war to come President George] Bush told Iraqiopposition figures on Friday that he favored a short military occupation afterSaddam Hussein is out of power The dissidents assured him that American

soldiers] would be greeted with sweets and flowers NFU Herbert Abrams pageApr 10 2003 Miller reached southern Iraq At a suspect site sensors registered thepresence of chemical agents The agricultural site was first reported as suspiciouson April 6 after soldiers became nauseated and noticed welts on their hands TheIraqis had gone to great lengths to hide 11 or so 20-gallon drums of a thin clearliquid The liquid in the barrels turned out to be an organophosphate used inpesticides though a sophisticated detector showed the presence of a nerve agent

NFU Herbert Abrams pageApr 2003 Judith Millers first dispatch from Baghdad published on April 24dutifully reported what unnamed sources had told her not what she had seenAmerican-led forces have occupied a vast warehouse complex in Baghdad filled with

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Corp Veridian (Calspan) is deeply involved in artificial intelligence In August of thisyear giant defense contractor General Dynamics acquired Veridian-Calspan 1997 Clear Vision Battelle Memorial Institute (BMI) source of anthrax mailingsNew York Times reports (Broad and Miller) tie BMI CIA and Dugway LifeSciences Center with mailed anthrax strainsWurmser wrote a column in the Wall Street Journal Iraq Needs aRevolution Sourcewatch Wurmser was a special assistant to John Bolton whoprovided much content for Judith Miller articles in the NY Times Also Wurmserwas a research fellow at AEIMylroies book was first published in 2000 by AEIPress In 1990 Mylroie co-authored with Judith Miller another Iraq book calledSaddam Husseinsearch Anthrax Mailings Inquiries Lead to Battelle Bioport Ingri Cassel DrLeonard G Horowitz Apr 27 1997 History Commons A package containing a petri dish mislabeledldquoanthracksrdquo is received at the Brsquonai Brsquorith headquarters in Washington DC Thechoice of Brsquonai Brsquorith may be meant to suggest Arab terrorists because the buildinghad once been the target of an assault by Muslim gunmen The dish does not containanthrax but does contain bacillus cereus a very close non-toxic cousin of anthraxused by the US Defense Department1998 Hatfill was Patricks sidekick in what one colleague has described as a Batmanand Robin team Vanity Fair file1998 Judith Miller and William Broad report on Iraq bioweapons and Miller met withKhidhir Hamza William Bowles 1998 As Miller and others have explained Ahmad Chalabi an Iraqi expatriate wasthe source of much of her information some of the time she credited him directly 2]She had mentioned him much earlier In an interview in 1998 shortly after OperationDesert Fox (four nights in which the United States and Britain bombed numeroustargets in Iraq) she said that Chalabi told her he had been given only a few hours

notice of the impending attack NFU Herbert Abrams page1998 BioPortcom Founded 1998 to acquire the assets of Michigan BiologicProducts Institute from the State of Michigan BioThrax productBioPort was bought in 1998 for nearly $25 million by a group of private investorsincluding executives who had worked at the plant under Michigan ownership FuadEl-Hibri and Adm William J Crowe Jr a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs ofStaff New York Times Judith Miller Aug 5 2002 New York Times1998 Judith Miller apparently knew David Kelly rather well She had quoted him inseveral of her earlier articles going back to 1998 and according to the Globe articlereferenced above Kelly had helped her write her book about Weapons of MassDestruction published several years before Dailykos1998 BioPort wins an exclusive $29 million contract with the Department of Defensefor controversial anthrax vaccine increased by the Pentagon to $498 million andadvances Bioport $17 million to cover its debts Bioports largest investor SaudiFuad El-Hibri friend of bin Laden family former M amp A manager of Citigroup andwith major shareholder Carlyle Group Sam Seder Show1998 US FDA and the Centers for Disease Control -- working under a presidentialdirective look for existing drugs to use after a mass exposure to anthrax Sam SederShow1999 the CDC asks Bayer to have Cipro labeled for use in inhalational anthraxBayer is also asked to provide data that showed how safe Cipro is and results inchildren for treatment of inhaled anthrax Inhaled anthrax was almostnonexistent in this country and Bayer could skip time-consuming human clinicaltrialsThe DOD had done the critical studies says L Barth Reller chair of the FDAadvisory committee Sam Seder Show1999 William C Patrick III briefing Maxwell Air Force base Alabama Bacillusglobigii simulant predicted an attack Adm William J Crowe Jr The Great Anthrax Stock Swindle RenseFeb 1999 HistoryCommons A classified report discusses responses to an anthraxattack through the mail The report precipitated by a series of false anthrax mailingsis written by William Patrick inventor of the US anthrax weaponization processunder a CIA contract New York Times 1232001] The report was commissioned bySteven Hatfill a good friend of Patrick May 14 2000 HistoryCommons May 14 2000 Inquiry Launched into BayerCoverup of Cipro Problems The Sunday Times reports that an inquiry has beenlaunched into the behavior of Bayer after revelations in a British trial regarding theanthrax antibiotic drug Cipro The drug has been tested on hundreds despite thecompany having conducted studies which showed it reacted Jul 6 2000 BioPorts anthrax vaccine fails potency tests Antex Biologics sister company to BioPort Corporation2001 Tetrahedron Publishing excerpts An Open Letter and Question for FBIDirector Robert Mueller from Dr Leonard G Horowitz Prepared forBroadcast on Inside Out Hosted by Michael Levine on KRLA radio in LosAngeles December 17 2001BMI directs the Defense Departments Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program worthmore than $1 billion in vaccine contracts an acquisition program in which Battelle asa CIA contractor partnered with Bioport for Americas sole anthrax vaccineproduction Bioport-largely owned by Britains top secret biowarfare consortium

chemicals where Iraqi scientists are suspected of having tested unconventional agents Officials described] it as filled with broken parts and remnants of equipmentconsistent with a full-scale laboratory This reporter was not permitted to visit thewarehouse Officials believed the information seemed to provide corroboration toaccounts that Saddam Hussein continued expanding his weapons programs whileclaiming to have dismantled them Judith Miller wrote Three days later on April 27her account featured Nissar Hindawi a leading figure in Iraqs biological warfareprogram in the 1980s who claimed Iraq had produced huge quantities of liquidanthrax and botulinum toxin This informant had left the program in 1989 before thefirst Gulf War and was described as now in the protective custody of the Iraqiopposition leader Ahmad Chalabi continued Herbert Abrams Miller WMD NFUpageJune 2003 Truthout In mid-June 2003 when former Ambassador Joseph Wilsonscriticism against the White Houses use of pre-war Iraq intelligence started to makenational headlines Vice President Dick Cheney told his former chief of staff andclose confidant I Lewis Scooter Libby to leak classified intelligence data on Iraqsnuclear ambitions to a legendary Washington journalist in order to undercut thecharges made against the Bush administration by the former ambassador On June 27 2003 Bob Woodward the Pulitzer Prize winning reporter becamethe first journalist to whom Libby leaked a portion of the classified NationalIntelligence Estimate that purportedly showed how Iraq tried to acquire yellowcakeuranium from Niger full storyGlobal Research that the anthrax threat from Iraq a repeatedly cited reason for the2003 invasion of that country actually originated from a dead cow in SouthOxfordshireJune 2003 Washington Post In a startling development reported in todaysWashington Post it now appears that Bob Woodward was the first reporter to whom asenior administration official leaked the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame file Libby indictment Washington PostJuly 17 2003 Wikipedia On the morning of July 17 2003 David Kelly was workingas usual at home in One of the e-mails he sent that day was to New York Timesjournalist Judith Miller 11] who had used Kelly as a source in a book on bioterrorismto whom Kelly mentioned many dark actors playing games Oxfordshire andAccessMyLibrary Scoop The Murder of David KellySibel EdmondsDec 20 2003 This informant Haideri whom Miller had discussed at length onDecember 20 claimed that chemical and biological weapons laboratories werehidden beneath hospitals and inside presidential palaces (As Landay pointed out inMay 2004 when taken back to Iraq in early 2004 by the Iraq Survey Group Haideriwas unable to identify a single site associated with illegal weapons) NFU Herbert

Abrams pageGlobal Research Moreover there has been a widespread campaign on to link thethreat of al-Qaida with that of a mass biological attack At least the day afterSeptember 11 the link - as the Anthrax mailings had yet to arise - was not soapparent Yet on PBS Frontline the New York Times Judith Miller (no apparentrelation to John Miller as far as Im aware) accompanied by the New York TimesJames Risen was interviewed as an expert on al-Qaida Several weeks later JudithMiller would once more make the headlines as the apparent recipient of an anthraxmailing which turned out to be a false alarm - yet was all the same conveniently timedwith the well-publicized launching of her book ongerm warfare As was laterdiscovered the anthrax mailings petered out once the news leaked that a DNA testrevealed the material to be of the Ames strain of anthrax an agent synthesized out ofa CIA laboratory in Fort Detrick Maryland Nevertheless this was sufficient to fast-track Bioports exclusive license for the anthrax vaccine toward FDA approvalFormerly Bioports experimental anthrax vaccine was being forcibly administered -under threat of court-martial - to hundreds of thousands of American servicemen (inconformity with Bioports exclusive and lucrative contract with the Department ofDefense) moreApril 28 2003 there seemed to be a note of irritation in Millers reporting Thereare no chemical weapons at a site where American troops said they had foundchemical agents and mobile labs Repeatedly early reports of discoveries come tonaught The elaborate system created by Pentagon planners has not worked outshe wrote (httpwwwtalkingpointsmemocomarchivesweek_Apr 6 2004 Judith Miller connections how US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald ofChicago had quite aggressively investigated another Bush White House leak in late2001 and early 2002 Fitzgerald had been investigating three Islamic charities accusedof supporting terrorism -- the Holy Land Foundation the Global Relief Foundationand the Benevolence International Foundation Apr 6 2004 Josh Marshall reported

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Porton Down bin Laden family associate Faud El Hibri Admiral William J CroweJr a former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and others (including according tosome investigators the multinational investment firm and defense contractor theCarlyle Management Group that managed bin Laden family millions prior to 9-11directed by past CIA director Frank Carlucci James Baker III and Past PresidentGeorge HW Bush) a vaccine maker that has negotiated a steady stream ofcontroversy and illegalities since 1996 the year before the CIA contracted withBattelle to conduct a special study of aerosolized hyper-weaponized anthraxmoresearch Judith Miller bioport 2001May 15 2001 Buck anthrax vaccine refusal Buck file court martialJune 21 2001 Courant Daschle letter to RumsfeldA growing number of peoplebelieve that the use of the anthrax vaccine as currently formulated to protect humansagainst inhalation of anthrax spores fails to meet this test wrote Daschle a SouthDakota Democrat We all acknowledge that the threat posed by biological weaponsincluding anthrax is a real one that the Administration and the Congress have aresponsibility to address The letter also signed by then House Minority LeaderRichard Gephardt was sent to Rumsfeld on June 21 2001 The first anthrax letterswere postmarked Sept 18 2001 The anthrax-laced letters sent to the offices ofDaschle and Vermont Sen Patrick Leahy were postmarked Oct 9 2001 June 30-July 1 2001 HistoryCommons Judith Miller New York Times ReporterTold Al-Qaeda Is lsquoPlanning Something So Big the US Will Have to Respondrsquo butFails to Publish Warning She has a conversation with a still-anonymous top-levelWhite House source who reveals there is some concern about a top-secret NSAintercept between two al-Qaeda operatives She explains ldquoThey had been talking toone another supposedly expressing disappointment that the United States had notchosen to retaliate more seriously against what had happened to the USS] Cole Andone al-Qaeda operative was overheard saying to the other lsquoDonrsquot worry wersquoreplanning something so big now that the US will have to respondrsquo And I wasobviously floored by that information I thought it was a very good The New YorkTimes has yet to mention the warning in all of their post-911 reporting and the 911Commission has never mentioned anything about the warning eithermid August 2001 Global Research As for the present smallpox threat the mancharged with overseeing President Bushs mass vaccination policy was another DarkWinter alumnus Jerry Hauer Hauer (BioPort Emergent BioSolutions) a formerdirector of Kroll Associates - the security firm at the helm when the Twin Towers fell- is also the man who personally pulled strings in order to get senior FBI official JohnONeill his job as head of security at the World Trade Center ONeill who had left a30-year career in the FBI only two weeks before September 11 had perished in therubble of the Twin Towers on his very first day at the post Incidentally ONeill justhappened to have been the main FBI official in charge of investigating all things binLadenSept 4 2001 New York Times by Miller Engelberg Broad Sept 2001 article US Germ Warfare Research Pushes Treaty Limits search words Clear Visionsecret program to mimicked creation of biological (anthrax) arsenal other searchterms Batelle Memorial Institute defensive research loophole Gene Johnson endedin 2001 Also Project Jefferson track dangers of bioweapons Sept 4 2001 US Germ Warfare Research Pushes Treaty Limits published in theNew York Times on September 4 2001 weeks before the first anthrax mailings Wikipedia Judith MillerSpring 2001 Ivins removed from Special Immunization Program FireDogLakeSept 7 2001 Ivins reinstated to Special Immunization Program FireDogLakeSept 9 2001 New York Times article by Jane Perlez major shift away from Clintonpolicy to broker peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians After manyrefusals Bush agreed to meet Arafat but 911 WTC nixed it hmmm The NationThe Big Chill July 14 2005Sept 11 2001 HistoryCommons Evening 911 White House Staff IncludingCheneyrsquos Start Taking Anthrax Antibiotic Cipro On the evening after the 911attacks some White House personnel including Vice President Dick Cheneyrsquos staffare given the anti-anthrax drug Cipro and told to take it regularlySept 14-16 2001 worked late more than two hours FireDogLakeSept 17 2008 Salon Ivins alabi Sept 17 the day the FBI says the first batch ofanthrax letters were mailed from Princeton New Jersey mailboxMid-September 2001 HistoryCommons Neoconservatives Look to Tie Iraq to1993 WTC Bombing but Evidence Contradicts Their Theory At the behest of DeputySecretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz former CIA director James Woolsey and ateam of Justice and Defense Department officials fly to London on a US governmentplane to look for evidence tying Saddam Hussein to the 1993 bombing of the WorldTrade Center failedAnthraxVaccine Blogspot ldquoIvins was in the lab alone at night for prolonged periodndashmuch more so than at other times Perhaps so But the document states he spentexactly the same amount of time in the biosafety suite each night for 3 nights running

Judith Miller New York Times ChalabiWoolsey --- war propagandistsMay 8 2003 Miller provided cover for Powells description of Iraqi mobilebioweapons laboratories which he had offered in a speech to the United Nations inFebruary 2003 A joint British-American team of experts had concluded that atractor-trailer truck found in northern Iraq several weeks ago could be a mobilebiological weapons lab Miller wrote A defector said it was for the production of

biological agents NFU Herbert Abrams pageMay 12 2003 Millers last dispatch from Iraq recorded the discovery of thestrongest source of radiation found so far in Iraq at a long-abandoned test range nearAmiriya The material] could be used to make dirty bombs NFU Herbert

Abrams page2004 Wikipedia 2005 Wikipedia June 27 2005 Miller goes to jail search Jailhouse Crock Judith Miller is the Judas ofJournalism This article accuser Miller of being a fake martyr and actually obstructingjustice for personal gain and AntiwarJuly 2005 Wikipedia In July of 2005 Miller was jailed for contempt of court forrefusing to testify before a federal grand jury investigating a leak naming ValeriePlame as a covert CIA agent Miller did not write about Plame but was reportedly inpossession of evidence relevant to the leak investigation According to a subpoenaMiller met with an unnamed government official mdash later revealed to be I LewisScooter LibbyJuly 17 2005 Woodward Kurtz interview CNN transcripts file KURTZ JudithMiller in jail for protecting her sources an act of conscience paying a heavy pricebut isnt there a minimal public sympathy for her because these sources were notexposing wrongdoing as Deep Throat did but were outing a CIA operative Nov 27 2005 Washington Post Woodward Apologizes to Post for Silence BobWoodward apologized to The Washington Post yesterday for failing to reveal formore than two years that a senior Bush administration official had told him about CIAoperative Valerie Plame Woodward said he realized that his June 2003conversation with the unnamed official had greater significance after Libby wasdescribed in an indictment as having been the first administration official to tell areporter -- the Times Miller -- about PlameMolly Ivins link2006 Wikipedia Aug 25 2006 History Commons Autumn 2006 FBI Anthrax Investigation FinallyStops Suspecting Only Hatfill According to a later report by the Los AngelesTimes the FBIrsquos investigation into the 2001 anthrax attacks (see October 2001)remains ldquofixatedrdquo on suspect Steven Hatfill into late 2006 Senior FBI agent RichardLambert took over as head of the investigation in late 2002 and kept the focus onHatfill The change in focus comes just after August 25 2006 when Lambert isremoved as head of the investigation and reassigned to be the head of an FBI fieldoffice insteadSep 2006 AnthraxInvestigation Anthrax Articles From US News amp World Report In 1999 while working at a Virginia defense company called SAIC Hatfillcommissioned a classified report that included an anthrax-by-mail scenarioSalon 20062007 Wikipedia Salon Judith Miller Memories and search terms Major General Douglas Stone 2007 WhiteWraithe Greenwald details how immediately after the anthrax attacks fourldquowell-placed sourcesrdquo independently reported to ABC that preliminary lab resultsdefinitively linked the anthrax to Iraq by tell-tale traces of the compound bentoniteABCrsquos Brian Ross broadcast this news loudly and long and thereby vastly influencedpublic opinion linking Saddam to 911 but there is not and never was an iota of truthto these reports bentonite was never detected by those tests ABC kept the secret ofthis false leak until 2007 ABC knows its ldquowell-placed sourcesrdquo Salon WhiteWraitheGreen file betoniteMar 11 2007 History Commons Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) tells 60 Minutesthat he has looked into the investigation of the 2001 anthrax attacks (see October2001) and has concluded that there was leaking by top government officialsmdashnot toshut down the sole publicly named suspect Steven Hatfill but to disguise a lack ofprogress in the investigation Asked if he has any evidence that government officialsknowingly planted false information in the press Grassley replies ldquoI believe theextent to which they wanted the public to believe that they were making greatprogress in this case and the enormous pressure they had after a few years to show

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just when the first letters were sent (September 14-16) 2 hours and 15 minutes eachtime That is a funny coincidence when he spent variable amounts of time in thebuilding To me it suggests a clerical error Between September 11 2001 and thefirst anthrax letter being found there was a LOT of talk about a biological attackbeing next I was deluged with queries about this at the time So if Ivins was trying towork harder under the cloud of an impending attack it makes sense to me because Iwas working harderrdquoSept 18 2001 Less lethal media anthrax letters mailed FireDogLakeSept 18 2001 Wikipedia Amerithrax attacks (case name) startedSept 26 2001 Ivins emails I just heard tonight that Bin Laden terrorists for surehave anthrax and sarin gas Osama Bin Laden has just decreed death to all Jewsand Americans FireDogLakeSept 28-30 2001 worked late around 1 12 hours FireDogLakeOct 2001 press reports reveal that White House staff had been on the powerfulantibiotic Cipro since the September 11th terrorist attacks White House staff andPresident Bush as well began taking Cipro nearly a month before anthrax wasdetected on Capitol HillWikipedia John McCain suggested on the David Letterman Show that the anthraxmay have come from Iraq 40] and the next week ABC News did a series of reportsstating that three or four (depending on the report) sources had identified bentonite asan ingredient in the anthrax preparations implicating Iraq see also Guardian WallStreet Journal Immediately after attacks Greenwald details how immediately after the anthraxattacks four ldquowell-placed sourcesrdquo independently reported to ABC that preliminarylab results definitively linked the anthrax to Iraq by tell-tale traces of the compoundbentonite ABCrsquos Brian Ross broadcast this news loudly and long and thereby vastlyinfluenced public opinion linking Saddam to 911 but there is not and never was aniota of truth to these reports bentonite was never detected by those tests ABC keptthe secret of this false leak until 2007 ABC knows its ldquowell-placed sourcesrdquo Salon WhiteWraithe Green fileOct 2001 Telegraph Anthrax Woolsey Building a Case against Iraq Mid-September-October 2001 Neoconservatives Attempt to Link Iraqi Government to911 and Anthrax Attacks Former CIA Director James Woolsey makes a secret toEurope to find evidence that could link the Iraqi government to various terroristattacks HistoryCommonsOct 1 2001 Global Research October 1 Judith Miller of the New York Timesreported that hijacker Atta received money from someone using the alias MustafaAhmad Five days later on October 6 Maria Ressa of CNN quoting terrorism expertMagnus Ranstorp officially unveiled Omar Saeed as the pseudonymous 911 moneyman He Omar Saeed] is linked to the financial network feeding bin Ladensassets so therefore hes quite an important personbecause he transfers moneybetween various operatives and hes a node between al Qaeda and foot soldiers on theground Ressa went on to report Because investigators have now determined thatOmar Saeed] and Mustafa Muhammad Ahmad the pseudonym] are the same person itprovides another key link to bin Laden as the mastermind of the overall 911] plotOct 2 2001 ldquoanti-terrorismrdquo Patriot Act is introduced in Congress but is not wellreceived by allOct 3 2001 Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D) says he doubts the Senate willtake up this bill in the one week timetable the administration wants As head of theSenate Daschle has great power to block or slow passage of the bill AttorneyGeneral Ashcroft accuses Senate Democrats of dragging their feetOct 2 2001 Wikipedia Germs Biological Weapons and Americas Secret War whichhad been published on October 2 2001 Miller also co-authored an article onPentagon plans to develop a more potent version of weaponized anthrax US GermWarfare Research Pushes Treaty Limits published in the New York Times onSeptember 4 2001 weeks before the first anthrax mailingsOct 2 2001 Ayaad Asaad interviewed about claim he was a bioterrorist Ivins workslate for 23 minutes FireDogLakeOct 2 2001 ldquoanti-terrorismrdquo Patriot Act is introduced in CongressOct 4 2001 Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D) accuses theBush administration of reneging on an agreement on the anti-terrorist bill Leahy is ina key position to block or slow the bill Some warn that ldquolawmakers are overlookingconstitutional flaws in their rush to meet the administrations timetablerdquo Two dayslater Ashcroft complains about ldquothe rather slow pace hellipover his request for lawenforcement powershellip Hard feelings remainrdquo Sam Seder ShowOct 5 2001 AnthraxInvestigation victimsOct 4-6 2001 worked late around 3 hours FireDogLakeOct 5 2001 New York Daily News FBI was told to blame Anthrax scare on AlQaeda by White House officials In the immediate aftermath of the 2001 anthraxattacks White House officials repeatedly pressed FBI Director Robert Mueller toprove it was a second-wave assault by Al Qaeda but investigators ruled that out theDaily News has learned After the Oct 5 2001 death from anthrax exposure ofSun photo editor Robert Stevens Mueller was beaten up during President Bushsmorning intelligence briefings for not producing proof the killer spores were thehandiwork of terrorist mastermind Osama Bin Laden according to a former aide Sam Seder Show and Wikipedia Immediately after the anthrax attacks White House officials repeatedlypressured FBI Director Robert Mueller to prove that they were a second-wave assault

that yes that they was very much misleading the publicrdquo CBS News 3112007]Nov 1 2007 History Commons November 1 2007 FBI Secretly Raids House ofAnthrax Suspect Ivins Bars Him from Access to Dangerous Toxins at USAMRIIDThe house of Bruce Ivins Source Rob Carr Associated Press]The FBI has recentlybegun to suspect that Bruce Ivins a scientist working at USAMRIID the US Armyrsquostop biological laboratory was behind the 2001 anthrax attacks His home is searchedby the FBI but no report of this makes the newspapers On the same day USAMRIIDcuts off his access to the laboratories where biological agents and toxins are used andstored However he continues to work at USAMRIID without such access until July2008 when he will be completely banned from the lab (see July 10 2008) Herald-Mail 882008]2008 Wikipedia Feb 19 2008 A judge says that the FBI has no evidence against Steven Hatfill whohas been the only publicly named suspect so far in the 2001 anthrax attacks (seeOctober 2001) Reggie Walton the federal judge presiding over a lawsuit brought byHatfill against the Justice Department and the FBI for damaging his reputation saysin court ldquoThere is not a scintilla of evidence that would indicate that Dr Hatfill hadanything to do with the anthrax attacks]rdquo Walton has reviewed four still secret FBImemos about the status of the anthrax investigation Los Angeles Times 6282008]Later in the year Hatfill will settle with the government and will be awarded $6million (see June 27 2008)June 27 2008 History Commons Steven Hatfill who was called a ldquoperson ofinterestrdquo in the FBIrsquos investigation into the 2001 anthrax attacks (see October 2001)agrees to a $582 million payment from the government to settle his legal claim thatthe Justice Department and the FBI ruined his career and invaded his privacy Hatfillwas the main focus of the anthrax investigation for several years but was neverarrested or charged A federal judge presiding over his lawsuit recently said there ldquoisnot a scintilla of evidencerdquo linking him to the attacks The government does notformally admit any wrongdoing as part of the settlement but the payout is widelyviewed as an exoneration for Hatfill For instance the Los Angeles Times calls Hatfillldquoall but exoneratedrdquo No witnesses or physical evidence were ever produced to linkHatfill to the attacks Rep Rush Holt (D) says the governmentrsquos payout to Hatfillconfirms that the anthrax investigation ldquowas botched from the very beginninghellipAug 1 2008 Wikipedia In mid 2008 the FBI focused on Ivins and told him about Bradblog Washington Post changes story (original) Aug 1 2008 Ivins had noaccess to dry powdered anthrax at the Fort Detrick lab where he worked and (changed) Aug 2 2008 As a researcher for the Armys main lab for studyingbioterror agents Ivins had easy access to anthrax bacteria including the specific strainof Bacillus anthracis used in the attacks on media outlets and congressional offices inthe fall of 2001 no correctionAug 3 2008 Raw Story Daschle criticizes anthrax story Tom Ridge BushsHomeland Security secretary at the time of the anthrax attacks said he did not knowwhat evidence the FBI had uncovered against Ivins and still mentioning overseasAug 6 2008 Wikipedia Federal prosecutors declared Bruce Edwards Ivins the soleculprit in the crime

Aug 7 2008 Sen Grassley 18 questions Anthrax Investigation and more Aug 8 2008 Wikipedia Sen Charles Grassley and Rep Rush Holt called forcongressional hearingsBradblog Washington Post changes story (original) Ivins had no access to drypowdered anthrax at the Fort Detrick lab where he worked and (changed) As aresearcher for the Armys main lab for studying bioterror agents Ivins had easy accessto anthrax bacteria including the specific strain of Bacillus anthracis used in theattacks on media outlets and congressional offices in the fall of 2001

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by Al Qaeda During the presidents morning intelligence briefings Mueller wasbeaten up for not producing proof that the killer spores were the handiwork ofterrorist mastermind Osama Bin Laden according to a former aide They reallywanted to blame somebody in the Middle EastOct 5 2001 Ivins works late for 3 hours 42 minutes Bob Stevens photo editor ofSun newspaper dies FireDogLakeOct 6 2001 Global Research Maria Ressa of CNN quoting terrorism expert MagnusRanstorp officially unveiled Omar Saeed as the pseudonymous 911 moneyOct 9 2001 Two more letters The sixth and seventh letters to Daschle and Leahywere postmarked October 92001 and contained a more refined and dangerous anthraxmedium Sam Seder ShowCourant The anthrax-laced letters sent to the offices of Daschle and Vermont SenPatrick Leahy were postmarked Oct 9 2001 Oct 12 2001 Iowa State (Ames Lab) college staff members removed the anthraxspecimens from the laboratory and destroyed them Dr Jim Roth an assistant deanhad contacted the FBI and the Centers for Disease Control before killing thespecimens Both agencies approved the destruction Sam Seder ShowOct 12 2001 Fox NewsBob Stevens 63 yr old tabloid photo editor American Media succumbed toinhalation anthrax breathing in spores deadlier than cutaneous from skin cutsscratches Guardian Anthrax al Queda linkOct 14 2001 Ivins works late for 1 hour 26 minutes Guardian first suggests tiebetween anthrax and Iraq FireDogLakeOct 15 2001 Daschle letter opened Bush presses FBI to look into Middle Easternlinks to anthrax FireDogLakeCNN transcripts Judith Miller interview file Well the letter was handwritten Andthere was no return address And there were misspellings It was a threatening letterAnd The Times has decided that I should only tell you that it contained athreat to the Sears Tower and to President Bush It was a crude letterThat is all I can say no return address the Florida letter writer also warned ofdestruction of the Sears Tower

Source New York Times August 5 2002 and UCLA Dept of Epidemiology School of Public Health Anthrax Vaccine Maker Calls Finances Shaky

By JUDITH MILLER

LANSING Mich Aug 1 -- The nations sole producer of anthrax vaccine says it is in financial jeopardy because the Bush administration has failed to say how much vaccine it intends tobuy preventing it from selling vaccine to foreign and private customers at much higher prices But the Pentagon has been unable to tell BioPort precisely how much more vaccine thegovernment intends to order because several civilian agencies have not given the military budget commitments to pay for the vaccine they want despite months of discussion Negotiationsare ongoing and will be successful a senior homeland security official said Sometimes talks go quickly sometimes they dont

The anthrax vaccine is at the heart of the Bush administrations effort to protect American soldiers and civilians against another mass exposure to the deadly pathogen which last fall killed 5people sickened about 17 and led more than 20000 people to take antibiotics The impasse comes at a time when the Bush administration is vowing to oust Saddam Hussein of Iraqwho is believed to be storing thousands of gallons of anthrax that could be used as weapons in war or terrorism

Senior BioPort executives disclosed that the Department of Defense is paying about $20 a dose for the vaccine or more than three times the original price negotiated three years ago andPentagon officials confirmed this But company officials say that even this price while acceptable now is too low to enable BioPort to make the long-term investments it needs to survive This company is a unique resource Mr Kramer said Its crazy for us as a business to risk our financial viability due to government indecision Our long-term viability is at risk giventhe current situation

Bush administration officials say that they understand the companys predicament but that BioPort is partly responsible for it because of faulty business assumptions repeated failures tomeet requirements of the Food and Drug Administration and overly optimistic assumptions about its ability to produce vaccine In June for instance the company threw out about 180000doses of vaccine it deemed substandard -- the equivalent of two weeks production

In late June the Pentagon announced a new anthrax vaccination policy which reversed a plan by the Clinton administration to immunize all 24 million people in the military The newpolicy limits vaccinations to soldiers in areas with a higher risk of exposure widely reported to be the Middle East and the Korean peninsula The policy also commits theadministration to stockpiling for civilian use from 40 percent to half of the vaccine produced for the Pentagon Soldiers are being vaccinated now while civilians -- mostly police officersfirefighters rescue crews and other first responders -- would receive shots only after exposure to anthrax While BioPort says confusion exists in the government over how much vaccineshould be ordered for both the military and civilians some Bush administration officials blamed bureaucratic wrangling between civilian agencies and the Pentagon for the delay

The Department of Homeland Security which is being created is supposed to take charge of such orders but in the interim the Defense Department has been coordinating orders of vaccinefor itself and for several civilian agencies that want to stockpile the vaccine to protect government employees overseas along with FBI and other law enforcement agents state and localemergency personnel and health workers

Providing immunity to the lethal anthrax spore is not easy The Food and Drug Administration says that six shots given over 18 months and a yearly booster should be given to ensureprotection But new federal studies suggest that three shots of the vaccine may be enough though the FDA has not approved this Pentagon officials disclosed on Friday that 68000 peopleon active duty in the military had received all six shots and that 440000 had received at least two shots]

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source Sourcewatch Judith Miller Three Islamic Charities tip-off

Miller and Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald Part 1On April 6 2004 Josh Marshall reported (httpwwwtalkingpointsmemocomarchivesweek_2004_04_04php002807) how US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald of Chicago had quiteaggressively investigated another Bush White House leak in late 2001 and early 2002 Fitzgerald had been investigating three Islamic charities accused of supporting terrorism -- theHoly Land Foundation the Global Relief Foundation and the Benevolence International Foundation But just before his investigators could swoop in with warrants December 142001] two of the charities in question got wind of what was coming and apparently were able to destroy a good deal of evidence What tipped them off were calls fromtwo reporters at the New York Times whod been leaked information about the investigation by folks at the White House One of those two reporters was Judy Miller Theother was New York Times reporter Philip Shenon 3] (httpwwwtpmcafecomstory200577114862336)

Marshalls point in April 2004 wasnt that the White House did something else wrong in fact he wrote he was told that in this case the White House really hadnt done anythingimproper at all However Fitzgerald was pissed and apparently went after them very aggressively -- and this for a case in which he was told there really wasnt much togo after which might be something to keep in mind when figuring how the Plame investigation might play out 4](httpwwwtalkingpointsmemocomarchivesweek_2004_04_04php002807)

Wikipedia Islamic Charities Judith Miller Leaked information concerning the search of Islamic charities Shortly after the September 11 terrorist attacks the US government wasconsidering adding the Holy Land Foundation to a list of organizations with suspected links to terrorism and was planning to search the premises of the organization The disclosureof this information by a government agent could constitute a violation of criminal law 18 USC Sec 793(d) The information about the impending search was given to Miller by aconfidential source On December 3 2001 Miller telephoned the Holy Land Foundation for comment before the search took place The New York Times published an article in thelate edition papers and on its website that day The next day the government searched HLFs offices These occurrences led to a lawsuit brought by Patrick Fitzgerald New YorkTimes v Gonzales 459 F3d 160 (2006) continued on Carlyle page

Bob Woodward book Sept 8 2008 Robert Bob Upshur Woodward assistant managing editor Washington Post investigative reporter Carl Bernstein search terms uncoverWatergate Nixon resignation 12 best-selling books Pulitzer Prize served in the Navy as an aid to Chief of Naval Operations Moorer met Mark Felt FBI Assistant Directordeepthroat inside source on Watergate book The Secret Man DNC convention 1972 wrote All the Presidents Men Redford Hoffman movie Ben Bradlee editor reporting on Nixondirty tricks Woodward interviewed Bush 43 four times books Bush at War Plan of Attack State of Denial Bush at War Part III with Dan Balz Camp David Worldwide AttackMatrix too close to Bush Kerry involvement in Plame scandal deposition to Fitzpatrick told him senior administration official leaked Plame identity to him in June 2003 November2005 article revealed his special knowledge casual offhand by Armitage part of confidential conversation of a source asked Libby questions about Armitage interview on CNN LarryKing junkyard dog prosecutor consequences of Plame outing not that great Downie inaccuracies inconsistencies exaggerations fabrications in books John Dean and Ed Gray Felt notthe only deepthroat also Donald Santarelli Brad DeLong in Maestro and The Agenda The Choice Clinton Whitewater inconsistencies abandon critical inquiry to maintain access tohigh-profile actors for glory stenographer to the rich and powerful At the Eye of the Storm see Maureen Dowd and The Brethren and his sitting on information for publication of abook The Commanders Powell opposed Operation Desert Storm published after war voted for in Congress and Veil he did not reveal that William Casey knew of arms sales to theContras until after the investigations and see Martin Dardis Watergate burglars and Committee to Re-elect the President and accused of fabricating deathbead interview with Casey Reagan called him a liar for whatever thats worth and other books Wired Shadow

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FDA searchHartford Courant The Hartford Courant reported last January that 27 sets of biologicaltoxin specimens were reported missing from Fort Detrick after an inventory was conductedin 1992 The paper reported that among the specimens missing was the Ames strain onanthrax source WMR

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Stanford University Steven Block an expert on biological warfare told The Dallas Morning News that The American process for preparing anthrax is secret in its details butexperts know that it produces an extremely pure powder One gram (a mere 28th of an ounce) contains a trillion spores A trillion spores per gram is basically solid spore Itappears from all reports so far that this was a powder made with the so-called optimal US recipe That means they either had to have information from the United States ormaybe they were the United States (authors emphasis) source WMR

911Review as a CIA contractor partnered with Bioport for Americas sole anthrax vaccine production Bioport-largely owned by Britains top secret biowarfare consortiumPortonDown bin Laden family associate Faud El Hibri Admiral William J Crowe Jr a former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and others (including according to someinvestigators the multinational investment firm and defense contractor the Carlyle Management Group that managed bin Laden family millions prior to 9-11 directed by past CIAdirector Frank Carlucci James Baker III (-gt) and Past President George HW Bush)

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ABCnews A French terrorism trial was thrown intoturmoil on Wednesday by a report French agentssecretly interviewed the six accused during theirdetention at a US military camp on CubasGuantanamo BayAgilentgate16-norfolknmcinavymil (Nctc) New York -- nfu visitor

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INSLAW case murdersAlan Standorf An employee of the National Security Agency in electronic intelligence Standorf was a source of information for Danny Casalaro who was investigating INSLAWBCCI etc Standorfs body was found in the backseat of a car at Washington National Airport on Jan 31 1991 Etherzone 42inc NFU Jackson Stephens research

Larry Guerrin Was killed in February 1987 while investigating the INSLAW case Etherzone 42inc and NFU Jackson Stephens research

Dennis Eisman An attorney with information on INSLAW Eisman was found shot to death on April 5 1991 Etherzone 42inc NFU Jackson Stephens research

Ian Spiro Spiro had supporting documentation for grand jury proceedings on the INSLAW case His wife and 3 children were found murdered on November 1 1992 in their homeThey all died of gunshot wounds to the head Ians body was found several days later in a parked car in the Borego Desert Cause of death The ingestion of cyanide FBI report indicatedthat Ian had murdered his family and then committed suicide Etherzone 42inc NFU Jackson Stephens research websites

Anthrax Mailings Inquiries Lead to BattelleBioport Anthrax Mailings Inquiries Lead to BattelleBioport By Ingri Cassel-208265-2575 800336-9266 donavan posted this on Sunday January 27 2002

Sandpoint ID - Battelle Memorial Institute (BMI) is increasingly becoming the central suspect in the anthrax mailings investigation according to a growing number of independentinvestigators and newspapers initially tipped by a report released last Monday by Dr Leonard G Horowitz a Harvard trained public health authority The NY Times is the latest newspaperto include this West Jefferson Ohio defense contractor that documents prove maintained close ties to the US Armys Dugway Life Sciences center where the specific strain of anthraxwas undergoing tests

The Baltimore Sun reported this week that contrary to popular belief the Defense Department maintained a potentially offensive biological weapons program using the Aimes strain ofanthrax identified at Dugway They failed to report that BMI largely administered and supplied this Life Sciences facility wherein a virtually identical strain of anthrax had been testedAfter circulating his 20-page report (See

httpwwwtetrahedronorg )to members congress and the press Dr Horowitz the author of the prophetically titled book Death in the Air Globalism Terrorism and Toxic Warfarecontacted the William J Broad the anthrax mailings investigator for the New York Times and co-author of Germs to discuss the accumulating evidence against BMI All roads lead toBMI Broad agreed

Two days later Broad and his co-author Judith Miller wrote that BMI participated in a secret Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) program code-named Clear Vision begun in 1997that allegedly used benign substances similar to anthrax The Horowitz report also argued that only someone with national security clearances such as CIA operatives assigned to this topsecret program could have commandeered the anthrax from BMI to the mailings sites such as Trenton New Jersey He said CIA personnel are increasingly implicated in light of theserevelations

Further implicating BMI and the CIA both leading anthrax experts-Americas William C Patrick III and Russian defector Kanatjan Alibekov-are BMI consultants and on the CIAspayroll according to earlier published reports cited in the Horowitz report

The whole truth would be severely embarrassing to the Bush administration Dr Horowitz said HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson has after all commandeered a bioterrorismpreparedness drug feeding frenzy With five persons killed and thirteen others infected so far military-industrial officials may be implicated in serial homicide if not economic genocidewhile wagging the dog for drug and vaccine company profits

Dr Horowitz says that the Baltimore Sun report was highly significant regarding Dugways Life Sciences Division Death Sciences seems to be a more accurate title for the lab largelydeveloped administered and supplied by BMI where all roads appear to lead Dr Horowitz said

Oct 1992 Holland plane crash Sarin gas HistoryCommons El Al Flight LY1862 en route from New York to Tel Aviv crashes into a block of apartment buildings shortly after take-off from Schiphol Airport located south-east of Amsterdam At least 43 people on the ground are killed (The exact number of deaths is unknown since many of the incinerated victimswere undocumented immigrants) Information about the planersquos cargo and the crash is suppressed El Al withholds information about the planersquos several tons of ldquomilitary cargordquo 12 hoursof videotape made during the rescue and clean-up operation (42 cassettes in all) along with police audiotapes are erased and shredded and El Al documents and the planersquos cockpit voicerecorder (CVR) mysteriously disappear It is later learned that the plane a Boeing 747 was carrying several tons of chemicals including hydrofluoric acid isopro-panol and dimethylmethylphosphonate (DMMP)mdashthree of the four chemicals used in the production of sarin nerve gas The shipment of chemicalsmdashapproved by the US commerce departmentmdashreportedlycame from Solkatronic Chemicals Inc of Morrisville Pennsylvania and its final destination was the Institute for Biological Research (IIBR) in Ness Ziona near TelAviv Israel which is reported to be the ldquoIsraeli military and intelligence communityrsquos front organization for the development testing and production of chemical and biologicalweaponsrdquo A former IIBR biologist later tells the London Sunday Times in October of 1998 ldquoThere is hardly a single known or unknown form of chemical or biological weaponhellip whichis not manufactured at the instituterdquo In fact it was IIBR that provided the poison and the antidote used in the attempted assassination of a Hamas leader in Jordan in 1998 The IIBR does

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not appear on any maps and is off-limits even to members of Israelrsquos Parliament the Knesset Israel denies that the chemicals were to be used in the production of chemical weapons andinstead claims that they were needed to test gas masks But as an article in Earth Island Journal notes ldquo T]his explanation is puzzling since it only takes a few grams to conduct such testsOnce combined the chemicals aboard Flight 1862 could have produced 270 kilos of sarinmdashsufficient to kill the entire population of a major world cityrdquo During hearings on the crash in1999 it is learned that since 1973 El Al planes are never inspected by customs or the Dutch Flight Safety Board and that El Al security at Schiphol is a branch of the Israeli MossadFurthermore it is discovered that every Sunday evening a mysterious El Al cargo flight arrives at Schiphol en route from New York to Tel Aviv The flights are never displayed on theairport arrival monitors and the flightsrsquo documents are processed in a special unmarked room BBC 1021998 Earth Island Journal 1999 Covert Action Quarterly 10202004] Over athousand residents living near the crash site later become sick with respiratory neurological and mobility ailments and a rise in cancer and birth defects is later detected among thepopulation ZNet

excerpt from Centre for Research on Globalization Propaganda Preparation for 911Moreover there has been a widespread campaign on to link the threat of al-Qaida with that of a mass biological attack At least the day after September 11 the link - asthe Anthrax mailings had yet to arise - was not so apparent Yet on PBS Frontline the New York Times Judith Miller (no apparent relation to John Miller as far as Imaware) accompanied by the New York Times James Risen was interviewed as an expert on al-Qaida Several weeks later Judith Miller would once more make theheadlines as the apparent recipient of an anthrax mailing which turned out to be a false alarm - yet was all the same conveniently timed with the well-publicizedlaunching of her book ongerm warfare As was later discovered the anthrax mailings petered out once the news leaked that a DNA test revealed the material to be of theAmes strain of anthrax an agent synthesized out of a CIA laboratory in Fort Detrick Maryland Nevertheless this was sufficient to fast-track Bioports exclusive licensefor the anthrax vaccine toward FDA approval Formerly Bioports experimental anthrax vaccine was being forcibly administered - under threat of court-martial - tohundreds of thousands of American servicemen (in conformity with Bioports exclusive and lucrative contract with the Department of Defense)

Judith Miller along with Jerry Hauer was among 17 key participants in a biowarfare exercise known as Dark Winter - a think tank-funded scenario that aimed tostudy the nationwide effects of a hypothetical smallpox outbreak One of the sponsors of that exercise was the Anser Institute of Homeland Security an organizationestablished before September 11 2001 Interestingly enough the curious phrase homeland security was starting to creep up with increasing frequency in thevocabularies of certain political cliques (Dick Cheney the Hart-Rudman Commission et al) in the year or two leading up to 911

Judith Miller NY Times August 2004 Anthrax articleWrangling Impedes Transfer Of Civilian Anthrax Vaccine LinkedinDiggFacebookMixxYahoo By JUDITH MILLER Published August 20 2004 Despite pledges two years ago tomaintain a stockpile of drugs to protect Americans in the event of a bioterrorism attack the federal government has so far set aside only 159 vials of anthrax vaccine for the civilianpopulation enough for only 530 people according to congressional and administration officials The officials said the failure to transfer more of the vaccine from military to civiliancontrol was caused by legal and bureaucratic wrangling among government agencies They also cited the governments desire to buy a new vaccine that is potentially both cheaper and moreefficient That vaccine has not yet been approved by the Food and Drug Administration Spokesmen for the Pentagon and the Department of Health and Human Services denied that thedelay would imperil the well-being of civilians saying that BioPort the nations sole producer of licensed anthrax vaccine was storing nearly a million doses -- enough for more than330000 people The bottom line is if there is a civilian crisis that would require vaccination of the population there is enough anthrax vaccine to do that said Bill Pierce aspokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services It would just take a phone call to get that vaccine transferred from the Pentagon to the stockpile he said dismissing thedelays to paperwork that will get done But a spokesman for BioPort and Pentagon officials said that the doses being stored are intended for the military which announced in Junethat it was expanding its anthrax and smallpox vaccination program If those doses were used by civilians in an emergency officials said military vaccinations would have to be curtailedor scaled back Michael Zamiara the chief financial officer of BioPort in Lansing Mich said the military had first call on its vaccine We must run a business hesaid While the Department of Health and Human Services had indicated it wanted the vaccine for the civilian stockpile he said the agency had yet to pay us for it or tell us how much itwants to buy Officials also said that the Bush administration had not implemented an interagency agreement signed last April a copy of which was provided to The Times in whichthe Pentagon agreed to provide at least two million doses of anthrax vaccine to the civilian stockpile by the end of this fiscal year or Sept 30 It is a shocking lack of preparedness tohave only 159 vials set aside for civilian use when we know that Al Qaeda would not hesitate to launch an anthrax attack against the United States said Rep Jim Turner Democrat ofTexas the ranking member of the House select committee on homeland security which has been investigating the state of the nations strategic stockpiles Jerome Hauer a formerassistant secretary with the Department of Health and Human Services in the Bush administration said the months of infighting over such issues as who would indemnify BioPort for itsvaccine reflected a lack of priority on biodefense We now have bureaucrats and lawyers running bioterrorism preparedness said Mr Hauer who heads a biodefense center at GeorgeWashington University The vaccine issue has been complicated by Congresss recent transfer of control of the civilian stockpile from the Department of Homeland Security back to theDepartment of Health and Human Services Many scientists at the health agency favor a new recombinant vaccine that may require fewer shots and be faster to make

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FBI lab reports on anthrax attacks suggest another miscue McClatchyWASHINGTON mdash Buried in FBI laboratory reports about the anthrax mail attacks that killed five people in 2001 is data suggesting that a chemicalmay have been added to try to heighten the powders potency a move that some experts say exceeded the expertise of the presumed killer

The lab data contained in more than 9000 pages of files that emerged a year after the Justice Department closed its inquiry and condemned the lateArmy microbiologist Bruce Ivins as the perpetrator shows unusual levels of silicon and tin in anthrax powder from two of the five letters

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Those elements are found in compounds that could be used to weaponize the anthrax enabling the lethal spores to float easily so they could be readilyinhaled by the intended victims scientists say

The existence of the silicon-tin chemical signature offered investigators the possibility of tracing purchases of the more than 100 such chemicalproducts available before the attacks which might have produced hard evidence against Ivins or led the agency to the real culprit

But the FBI lab reports released in late February give no hint that bureau agents tried to find the buyers of additives such as tin-catalyzed siliconepolymers

The apparent failure of the FBI to pursue this avenue of investigation raises the ominous possibility that the killer is still on the loose

A McClatchy analysis of the records also shows that other key scientific questions were left unresolved and conflicting data wasnt sorted out when theFBI declared Ivins the killer shortly after his July 29 2008 suicide

One chemist at a national laboratory told McClatchy that the tin-silicone findings and the contradictory data should prompt a new round of testing onthe anthrax powder

A senior federal law enforcement official who was made available only on the condition of anonymity said the FBI had ordered exhaustive tests on thepossible sources of silicon in the anthrax and concluded that it wasnt added Instead the lab found that its common for anthrax spores to incorporateenvironmental silicon and oxygen into their coatings as a natural phenomenon that doesnt affect the spores behavior the official said

To arrive at that position however the FBI had to discount its own bulk testing results showing that silicon composed an extraordinary 108 percent ofa sample from a mailing to the New York Post and as much as 18 percent of the anthrax from a letter sent to Democratic Sen Patrick Leahy ofVermont far more than the occasional trace contamination Tin mdash not usually seen in anthrax powder at all mdash was measured at 065 percent and 02percent respectively in those letters

An FBI spokesman declined to comment on the presence of tin or to answer other questions about the silicon-tin connection

Several scientists and former colleagues of Ivins argue that he was a career biologist who probably lacked the chemistry knowledge and skills toconcoct a silicon-based additive

Theres no way that an individual scientist can invent a new way of making anthrax using silicon and tin said Stuart Jacobsen a Texas-basedanalytical chemist for an electronics company whos closely studied the FBI lab results It requires an institutional effort to do this such as at amilitary lab

Martin Hugh-Jones a world-renowned anthrax expert who teaches veterinary medicine at Louisiana State University called it just bizarre that thelabs found both tin mdash which can be toxic to bacteria such as anthrax during lab culturing mdash and silicon

You have two elements at abnormally high levels Hugh-Jones said That reduces your probability to a very small number that its an accident

The silicon-tin connection wasnt the only lead left open in one of the biggest investigations in FBI history an inquiry that took the bureau to thecutting edge of laboratory science In April McClatchy reported that after locking in on Ivins in 2007 the bureau stopped searching for a match to aunique genetic bacterial strain scientists had found in the anthrax that was mailed to the Post and to NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw although a seniorbureau official had characterized it as the hottest clue to date

FBI officials say its all a moot point because theyre positive they got the right man in Ivins A mentally troubled anthrax researcher at the US ArmyMedical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick Md Ivins overdosed on drugs not long after learning that hed soon face five countsof capital murder

In ending the inquiry last year the Justice Department said that a genetic fingerprint had pointed investigators to Ivins lab and gumshoe investigativetechniques enabled them to compile considerable circumstantial evidence that demonstrated his guilt

Among these proofs prosecutors cited Ivins alleged attempt to steer investigators away from a flask of anthrax in his lab that genetically matched themailed powder mdash anthrax that had been shared with other researchers They also noted his anger over a looming congressional cut in funds for hisresearch on a new anthrax vaccine

However the FBI never found hard evidence that Ivins produced the anthrax or that he scrawled threatening letters seemingly meant to resemble thoseof Islamic terrorists Or that he secretly took late-night drives to Princeton NJ to mail them

The FBI declared Ivins the killer soon after paying $58 million to settle a suit filed by another former USAMRIID researcher Steven Hatfill whom theagency mistakenly had targeted earlier in its investigation

Anthrax is one of the deadliest and most feared biological weapons Once inhaled microscopic anthrax spores germinate into rapidly multiplyinghighly toxic bacteria that attack human tissue The resulting illnesses are lethal within days if untreated

The letters mailed just weeks after the Sept 11 terrorist attacks not only went to the New York Post Leahy and Brokaw but also to American MediaInc in Boca Raton Fla and to Democratic then-Sen Tom Daschle of South Dakota Five people died 17 were sickened and about 31000 were forcedto take powerful antibiotics for weeks Crews wearing moon suits spent several weeks eradicating the spores from a Senate office building and a centralPostal Service facility in Washington

The FBI guarded its laboratorys finding of 108 percent silicon in the Post letter for years New York Democratic Rep Jerrold Nadler asked FBIDirector Robert Mueller how much silicon was in the Post and Leahy letters at a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee in September 2008 TheJustice Department responded seven months later that silicon made up 14 percent of the Leahy powder (without disclosing the 18 percent reading) andthat a reliable quantitative measurement was not possible for the Post letter

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The bureaus conclusions that silicon was absorbed naturally drew a gentle challenge in February from a panel of the National Academy of Scienceswhich evaluated the investigations lab work

While finding no evidence that silicon had been added to the mailed anthrax the panel noted deep in its report that the FBI had provided nocompelling explanation for conflicts in silicon test results between the Sandia National Laboratories and its own lab

Sandia mdash which used electron microscopes unlike the FBI mdash reported only a tenth as much silicon in the New York Post letter as the bureaus lab didSandia said it was all embedded in the spore coatings where it wasnt harmful

The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology ran a third set of tests and found pockets of heavy silica concentrations but it couldnt say whether they wereinside or outside the spores

Jacobsen the Texas chemist suspects that the silica pockets represented excess material that went through a chemical reaction and hardened before itcould penetrate the spores

The National Academy of Sciences panel wrote that the varying composition of the powder might have accounted for the differing findings

While finding no evidence that silicon was added the panel said it cannot rule out the intentional addition of a silicon-based substance in a failedattempt to enhance dispersion of the New York Post powder

Tufts University chemistry professor David Walt who led the panels analysis of the silicon issue said in a phone interview that there was not enoughsilicon in the spores that could account for the total silicon content of the bulk analysis

He said it was unclear whether the trace levels of tin were significant

During the FBIs seven-year hunt the Department of Homeland Security commissioned a team of chemists at the Lawrence Livermore NationalLaboratory in California to grow anthrax-like spores under varying conditions to see how much silicon would end up naturally in the final product

They found little if any silicon in most cases far less than was in the New York Post letter said Stephan Velsko one of the two researchers He calledthe tin readings from the FBIs anthrax data baffling

Peter Weber Velskos co-researcher said the academy panels focus on the conflicting data raises a big question and itd be really helpful forclosure of this case if that was resolved

He suggested that further micro-analysis with a highly sophisticated electron microscope could pop the question marks really quickly

In a chapter in a recently updated book Microbial Forensics Velsko wrote that the anthrax must have indeed been produced under an unusual set ofconditions to create such high silicon counts That scenario he cautioned might not be consistent with the prosecution narrative in this case

About 100 tin-catalyzed silicone products are on the market and an even wider array was available in 2000 and 2001 before the mailings said RichieAshburn a vice president of one manufacturer Silicones Inc in High Point NC

Mike Wilson a chemist for another silicone products maker SiVance in Gainesville Fla said that numerous silicon products could be used to makespores or other particles water-repellent He also said that the ratios of silicon to tin found in the Post and Leahy samples would be about right if atin-catalyzed silicone had been added to the spores

Jacobsen a Scottish-born and -educated chemist who once experimented with silicon coatings on dust particles said he got interested in the sporechemistry after hearing rumors in late 2001 that a US military facility had made the killer potions He called it outrageous that the scientific issueshavent been addressed

America the most advanced country in the world and the FBI have every resource available to them he said And yet they have no compellingexplanation for not properly analyzing the biggest forensic clue in the most important investigation the FBI labs had ever gotten in their history

As a result of Ivins death and the unanswered scientific issues Congress investigative arm the Government Accountability Office is investigating theFBIs handling of the anthrax inquiry

Read more httpwwwmcclatchydccom20110519114467fbi-lab-reports-on-anthrax-attackshtmldisqus_threadixzz1NBATiXZ1

WMR Guest article Concerns Continue to Mount on US Bioweapons Violations AnthonyFreda Illustration Janet C Phelan Contributing Writer Activist PostThe Center for Disease Control has declined to confirm or deny allegations that the United States government is stockpiling biological andor chemicalweapons at Sierra Army Depot a military base in Northern California

According to Ron Davenport who was a biomedical engineer who worked at the medical clinic at Sierra Army depot in the seventies the base at onetime contained a stockpile of nuclear weapons Davenport states that much of the base is actually underground This reporter has obtained the testimonyof a civilian contractor with a security clearance who has stated that the nukes have been replaced by large vats of liquid

In an interview this week with Lori Bane Associate Director for Policy with the CDC Division of Select Agents and Toxins and Von Roebuck CDCPublic Affairs officer the two also declined to confirm or deny the existence of a number of biological safety labs level 4 The level 4 labs called BSL-4s handle the most dangerous germs known to man including Ebola Marburg and Argentine hemorrhagic virus

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The CDC is charged with the responsibility of registering labs which work with ldquoselect agentsrdquo and toxins The labs range from Levels 1 to 4 and aredesignated in terms of their containment capacity The 3rsquos and 4rsquos handle the really nasty bugs some of which have no known treatment or cure andpose a grave threat to human life

Bane and Roebuck maintain that there are only six operational BSL-4rsquos within the borders of the United States However a number of other BSL-4rsquosappear to be now operational Biosecurityorg lists eleven The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) has counted thirteen with some questions as towhether all the labs are operational at this point in time The University of North Carolina has counted fifteen

When this reporter did a ldquoroll callrdquo running down the entire FAS list Bane began to fidget Asked if there were an operational BSL-4 in GalvestonTexas she responded that she ldquodidnrsquot feel comfortable confirming or denyingrdquo if that facility has a registered BSL-4 or not

She responded in a similar manner to questions as to whether there was an operational BSL-4 in Montana ldquoBased on what I see on the internet theremay berdquo she volunteered The CDC is posited with the responsibility of registering the BSL-4rsquos and when asked why she was relying on internetsearches to determine this she stated that she was answering in this manner ldquofor security reasonsrdquo However the CDCrsquos own website contains multiplereferences to the Montana Lab

The granddaddy of all BSL-4rsquos was first established at Fort Detrick in 1969 This reporter has found indications of two other BSL-4rsquos at Detrick Banestated she was unable to comment on this Bane and Roebuck also attempted to convince this reporter that there is only one BSL-4 at the CDCHowever this reporter found indications that a second one may have gone online recently

Following 911 and particularly following the anthrax letters which came fast on the heels of the Twin Towers attacks theserdquo biological safetyrdquo labsstarted to proliferate as silently and quickly as mushrooms At this point in time Congress is allocating over one billion dollars a year to fundbiological defense research But is it really defensive research going on in these labs

According to the Sunshine Project an international non-profit working against the hostile use of biotechnology the institutional safeguards put intoplace to ensure that these labs are doing the appropriate kinds of research are almost nonfunctional Edward Hammond who was the director of theSunshine Project cited instance after instance where the oversight committees for these research facilities had never even convened let alone reviewedthe nature of the research ongoing in these facilities He also found where the mandated research was not taking place and other non- authorizedresearch was occurring instead

The Pentagon did not respond to queries concerning the possibility of BSL-4rsquos on two military bases Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah and AberdeenProving Grounds in Maryland This reporter located two architectural firms which claimed that they had been involved in building BSL-4s at thesebases httpwwwlinkedincominwaynewalters httpwwwninowconsultingcom

The potential presence of these weapons at Sierra Army Depot augurs the likelihood that these weapons are being stockpiled on other bases as wellThe Soldier and Biological Chemical Command of the US military lists installations at these facilities Aberdeen Proving Ground Anniston ChemicalActivity Blue Grass Chemical Activity Deseret Chemical Depot Edgewood Chemical Activity Jefferson Proving Ground Newport Chemical Depot PineBluff Chemical Activity Pueblo Chemical Depot Rocky Mountain Arsenal Umatilla Chemical Depot ChemBio - Rapid Response Team TechnicalEscort Unit Natick Soldier Center Research Development and Engineering Center Rock Island Site The apparent ldquosecretrdquo presence of BSL-4rsquos onmilitary bases coupled with indications of biological andor chemical stockpiles at Sierra and elsewhere point to the likelihood that the US is engagedin developing biological warfare agents This is a violation of the international Biological Weapons Convention The US signed the convention in1972 and is a repository of this international arms treaty along with Russia and Great Britain Unlike many other arms treaties which come with a hostof inspection capabilities and repercussions for violators the BWC has no teeth There is no investigatory capability and no oversight body to assignpenalties In this sense the BWC is merely window dressing It has recently come to light that the United States violated this treaty at least on paperthrough the passage of the Expansion of the Biological Weapons Statute which is published as Section 817 of the US Patriot Act This Statute largelyreflects the language of the BWC which restricts the development production and stockpiling of biological weapons However there is a caveat at theend of 817 which releases the United States government from culpability for violating the restrictions contained in 817 stating ldquo (c) Whoeverknowingly violates this section shall be fined as provided in this title imprisoned not more than 10 years or both but the prohibition contained in thissection shall not apply with respect to any duly authorized United States governmental activityrdquo It is through this caveat that the US violated both theletter and spirit of the BWC

What the US has accomplished through the passage of The Expansion of the Biological Weapons Statute is to give itself a ldquoblank checkrdquo for thedeployment of these weapons Richard Ebright a researcher at Rutgers University disputes the perception that the US is moving towards deploymentldquoA blank check doesnrsquot mean anything unless you use itrdquo he declared in an interview last month Ebright vigorously denies that the US is engaged inbioweapons research However the structure of the BWC itself a convention without an investigatory or enforcement arm could also be considered ablank check

The anthrax attacks themselves belie the declarations that the US is not engaging in this research It has been generally acknowledged that the anthraxcontained in the several letters was cooked up in a government lab The FBIrsquos contention that they ldquohad their manrdquo in Dr Bruce Ivins seemed to beboth confirmed and put into suspension by Ivinsrsquo alleged suicide The mainstream media played down the fact that Ivins who allegedly overdosed onTylenol began to gain strength in the hospital While waiting for a kidney transplant he was subsequently removed from life support And that is howDr Ivins died

Recently the National Academies released their long awaited report concerning the FBI investigation which nailed Ivins as the anthrax mailer TheNational Academies did not endorse the methodology used by the FBI to determine that Ivins was culpable and was unable to support and endorse theDepartment of Justicersquos conclusions concerning Ivinsrsquo guilt

The affixing of responsibility to Dr Ivins who was a researcher at Ft Detrick does have its political perks The identification of a suspect(conveniently now dead) removes suspicion from anyone else lurking in these labs It certainly derails any concerns of a larger government conspiracyconcerning the anthrax letters which were received by liberal Congressmen and members of the media right before the vote on the US Patriot ActViewed through this lens nagging doubts may surface in which a biological warfare agenda emerges into the foreground as a dark and ominouspossibility

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ldquoDual-userdquo is a term often used to refer to technology which can be used for both peaceful and military aims Obviously weapons grade anthrax froma government lab was used against US citizens in the anthrax attacks Is other research going on now which might result in later attacks And arethese toxins being stockpiled on military bases and if so why

And if the US is indeed manufacturing these weapons in ldquobiosafety labsrdquo under the guise of defensive research and stockpiling them at army basesand if the purpose of the ldquoblank checkrdquo being written for Biological and Chemical weapons via Section 817 of the US Patriot Act and buttressed bythe impotent BWC is to nullify the possibility of redress for deployment then the next question becomes How do we begin to address this spectre

This reporter has applied for credentials to attend the BWC which convenes every five years in Geneva The next meeting is in December of 2011 Atthis date the United Nations has not responded to the request for press credentials to attend the meeting

Janet Phelan is an investigative journalist whose articles have appeared in the Los Angeles Times The San Bernardino County Sentinel The SantaMonica Daily Press The Long Beach Press Telegram Oui Magazine and other regional and national publications Janet specializes in issues pertainingto legal corruption and addresses the heated subject of adult conservatorship revealing shocking information about the relationships between courts andshady financial consultants She also covers issues relating to international bioweapons treaties Her poetry has been published in Gambit LiberaApplezaba Review Nausea One and other magazines Her first book The Hitler Poems was published in 2005 She currently resides abroad You maybrowse through her articles (and poetry) at janetphelancom

WMR James Holmes Aurora police chiefs dubious connectionsJuly 25-26 2012 -- Aurora police chiefs dubious connections

As Aurora Colorado police chief Dan Oates receives accolades from officials from President Obama to Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper Oatesspast position with the New York Police Department is noteworthy as more details emerge of the connections between the alleged Century 16 movietheater shooter James Holmes and government-funded neuroscience research

Oates retired from the New York Police Department in 2001 after a 21-year career He served as safety services administrator in Ann Arbor Michiganthe home of the University of Michigan designated by former CIA director Richard Helms as one of the five top CIA-Advance Research ProjectsAgency (ARPA) now known as the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency or DARPA] behavioral science research campuses along with YaleMIT UCLA and the University of Hawaii In 2005 Oates left Ann Arbor to take up his present position in Aurora

Oatess last job with the NYPD was as the chief of the intelligence division As a member of Police Commissioner Howard Safirs executive staffOatess prepared according to The New York Daily News a daily intelligence briefing for Safir which lasted some two hours Oatess would haveconceivably had access to a wide spectrum of intelligence information including Drug Enforcement Administration FBI and other federal agencyreports on the suspicious activities of a number of Israeli art students and office movers in the year leading up to the 911 attack on New YorksWorld Trade Center

However Oates apparently missed the critical intelligence or if he passed it to Safir it was ignored Safir who served as New York PoliceCommissioner from 1996 to 2000 and was appointed by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani previously served as a federal Bureau of Narcotics and DangerousDrugs agent and in 10972 was one of two BNDD agents who arrested Harvard University researcher Timothy Leary a proponent of LSD use HoweverLeary had also conducted research under the guise of the Harvard Psilocybin Project the Concord Prison Experiment and the Marsh ChapelExperiment for the CIAs MK-ULTRA mind control program which was under the direction of CIA Technical Services director Dr Sidney Gottlieb

After Safir retired as police commissioner he became the chief consultant to the CEO of ChoicePoint Inc the firm that was implicated in scrubbingvoter rolls in Florida for the 2000 presidential election

In December 2001 Safir became chairman and CEO SafirRosetti a security firm that is a wholly owned subsidiary of Global Options Group as well asCEO of Bode Technology also a subsidiary of Global Options Safir has also served as CEO of VRI Technologies LLC a security investigations anddata analysis firm chairman of National Security Solutions Inc a counter-terrorism firm chairman and CEO of the November Group Ltd a strategicconsulting firm headquartered in Annapolis Maryland In addition he has served on the the board of directors of Implant Sciences Corp an explosivetrace detection sensor firm and Verint Systems Inc

Verint was formerly known as ComverseInfosys and the Department of Justice suspected the Israeli-owned firm which had contracts to providewiretapping systems to the FBI and Justice Department of having significant links to Israeli intelligence ComverseInfosys now known as Verint wassuspended from the New York NASDAQ index in 2007 over financial irregularities and money laundering brought about by the ex-CEO ofComverseInfosys Jacob Kobi Alexander an Israeli national Alexander fled prosecution for securities fraud in the United States and he now lives inthe Namibian capital of Windhoek Efforts to extradite Alexander from Namibia to the United States have been unsuccessful

Verint provided the closed-circuit television surveillance system for the London Underground when the system was hit by terrorist bombs on July 72005 A company called Visor Consultants was conducting a training exercise in which dummy bombs were used to simulate a terrorist bombing of theLondon Underground as the actual bombs were detonated Giuliani who appointed Safir as his polcie commissioner happened to be staying indowntown London at the time of the bombings Giuliani was staying and attending an economic conference at the Great Eastern Hotel at which then-Israeli Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was also present

Netanyahu had expressed a certain satisfaction over the 911 attack on US television in implying the attack would be good for Israel The response tothe 911 attack was severely affected by actual commercial airplane hijacking drills being run by the Pentagon during the actual attacks

Ironically Safirs one-time intelligence chief Oates would also face the strange situation where an emergency medical drill in nearby Douglas Countyon the outskirts of Aurora that dealt with a gunman shooting up a movie theater was being conducted during the actual shooting at the Batman movie inAurora

Oates in remarks to the media after the massacre at the theater immediately moved to quash rumors on the Internet He also told CBS News Face the

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Nation All evidence we have every single indicator is that it was all Mr Holmes activity and that he wasnt particularly aided by anyone else Oateswas discounting anything other than a lone nut theory behind the mass shooting

The Aurora police also revealed they were mistaken when they first reported that the car Holmes allegedly drove to the theater to conduct his shootingspree had Tennessee license plates The alleged shooters father Robert Holmes worked in some capacity for the US Navy Personnel Research andDevelopment Center in San Diego in 1988 The elder Holmes wrote a technical report for the center and the work appeared to have spanned from 1988to 1989 In 2000 the San Diego center moved to a remodeled new lab space at the Naval Support Activity in Millington Tennessee near MemphisThe center was re-named the Navy Personnel Research Studies and Technology (NPRST) Department The Millington center concentrates on behavioraland social sciences research and is funded mostly out of the Human Systems Department at the Office of Naval Research (ONR) the Navy researchbranch that works closely with DARPA and the CIA NPRST also has close working relationships with two universities the University of Mephis andthe University of Mississippi

It has also been revealed that Holmes spoke at the Salk Institute at the age of 18 on temporal illusions Holmes explains that a temporal illusion is anillusion that allows one to change the past One of slides shows the name of Terrence Sejnowski Terrence Sejnowski the Francis Crick Professor at theSalk Institute for Biological Studies and the director of the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory In 2008 Sejnowski wrote that since early brainresearch conducted by the RAND Corporation in 1980 we now know a lot about the brain perhaps more than we need to know In 2001 Sejnowskiworked with the CIA to develop a facial recognition and analysis system to detect whether someone is lying Three files of Sejnowskis research papersare located in Box 58 at the System Development Foundation (SDF) in Palo Alto California SDF has a rather complex and mysterious origin is said tohave been created in the 1950s as a not-for-profit entity SDF has an archival depository relationship with the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica

RAND and Stanford Research Institute two of the CIAs top west coast research centers were involved in temporal illusion research throughout the1970s and 80s The CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency projects had various code-names including GRILL FLAME and STAR GATE All dealt withremote viewing and WMR learned from a recent participant in the same program now under the supervision of the National Security Agency (NSA) inFort Meade Maryland has dealt on numerous occasions with temporal remote viewing ie remote viewing of past and future events The NSAprogram involves Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and the Monroe Institute in Faber Virginia according to the NSA source

Holmess shrinks government connectionsJuly 31-August 1 2012 -- Holmess shrinks government connections

WMR previously reported on the connections between accused Aurora movie theater shooter James Holmes and US government-funded neuroscienceresearch programs at the Anschutz Medical Campus at the University of Colorado and at the Salk Institute in La Jolla California in addition to hisfathers research work on neural networks for the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) It has now emerged that James Holmesspsychiatrist Dr Lynne Fenton worked as a psychiatrist for the US Air Force

Aurora police seized a notebook containing drawings of stick figures opening fire with weapons that Holmes mailed to Fenton before he allegedlycarried out the massacre of the theater audience at a screening of the Batman movie The Dark Knight Rises Holmess defense attorneys are trying toobtain the notebook which legal experts claim is privileged information between Fenton and Holmes who was under her care during the time leading upto the shooting spree that killed 12 and wounded more than 58 others

Fenton officially practiced Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in Denver but she has specialized in the study of schizophrenia Fenton has served asthe Director of Student Mental Health Services at the Anschutz campus since 2008 Holmes was one of six students to receive a National Institutes ofHealth grant for neuroscience research at Anschutz a program he suddenly withdrew from in May

Fenton is a graduate of the Chicago Medical School in 1986 and did her residency at Northwestern University in 1990 Northwesterns Department ofBiomedical Engineering receives government funding to conduct research into neural engineering and rehabilitation including restoration of humanfunction for example neuroprosthetics novel motor system therapies for stroke victims and assistive technologies for victims of neuropathologies bio-inspired technologies for robotics such as artificial sensor arrays locomotion systems sensory-feedback control algorithms The former FitzsimonsArmy Medical Center whose facilities Anschutz now occupies specialized in neuroprosthetics for veterans who lost limbs in combat

In May before he dropped out of his NIH-funded program at Anschutz Holmes presented a paper on Micro DNA Biomarkers in a class on theBiological Basis of Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders

The Salk Institute where Holmes an an intern worked on temporal illusion projects is part of the University of California at San Diego The San Diegocampus also hosts the Neural Engineering and Theoretical Neuroscience Laboratory and the Retina Engineering Center of the Department ofBioengineering at the Jacobs School of Engineering which has a program funded by the US Army Telemedicine and Advanced Technology ResearchCenter (TATRC) headquartered at Fort Detrick Maryland the home to a number of highly classified military medical research projects incluidngweaponized anthrax research One of the labs projects is the design of retinal implants to replace damaged photoreceptors in the eye by detecting lightand properly stimulating neurons in the retina or simply stated a technology that would allow the blind to see

Fenton was also the chief of physical medicine for the Wilford Hall US Air Force Medical Center at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio Texasfrom 1990 to 1993

On April 16 2003 Air Force Colonel Philip Shue a psychiatrist at the Air Force Medical Center kissed his wife good-bye before driving to work Onhis way to work Shue was killed instantly in a crash in which the drivers side was severely impacted The Air Force local and state police determinedthat Shue committed suicide End of story Not quite

Shues t-shirt was ripped open from his chest to his navel with a six-inch vertical incision in his chest Oddly Shues nipples had been removed Shueswrists were wrapped in duct tape Investigators determined that Shue had suffered a psychological breakdown before mutilating himself and thencommitting suicide A Kendall County grand jury later concluded that no foul play was involved in Shues death and no crime was committed

Noted pathologist Dr Cyril Wecht who investigated the assassination of John F Kennedy -- determining there was more than one assassin -- and other

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high-profile deaths concluded that there was no way that Shue could have mutilated himself and that Shue fell victim to torture and homicide A trialover payment of Shues USAA life insurance policy did result from the death but the presiding judge changed the cause of Shues death from suicide tohomicide although he ruled in a take nothing decision that USAA was not liable in paying out Shues life insurance claim to Shues first wifeNevertheless the Kendall County Sheriffs office refused to re-open the case as a homicide And like the trial of James Holmes in Aurora the judgeruled that cameras were not permitted in the court room during the Shue trial Subsequently in a politically-motivated prosecution by the Bushadministration Wecht faced 84 criminal counts of misuse of his public office as Allegheny County medical examiner including alleged misuse of anAllegheny County fax machine In 2009 the Bush-appointed US Attorney in Pittsburgh dismissed all charges against Wecht However the case leftWecht $8 million in debt

Shues murder deemed a suicide by authorities fits a familiar pattern of the government eliminating witnesses to illegal activities and grossmisconduct Although Fenton preceded Shue by ten years at the Lackland psychiatric department Shues suspicious death is an indication that he mayhave become aware of unethical activities at the medical center Shue had also announced his decision to retire from the Air Force shortly before hisdeath

In 2005 Fenton received a reprimand from the Colorado medical board for prescribing Vicodin Xanax Lorazepam and Ambien to her husband heremployee and herself

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JStudies Antiwar SourceWatch She was protecting Libby not the First Amendment

Miller lied about Iraq WMD Was the Anthrax letter she received also a hoax Her book came out the nextday

There were no biolabs in Sadams palace basements and on and on

Herbert Abrams New York Times reporter Judith Miller authored many stories about Iraq WMD later found to be misleading ordownright false By Herbert L Abrams JulyAugust 2004 pp 56-64 (vol 60 no 04) copy 2004 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists more Judith Millers War Dissident Voice Lay all Judith Millers New York Times stories end to end from late 2001 to June 2003 and youget a desolate picture of a reporter with an agenda both manipulated and being manipulated by US government officials Iraqi exiles anddefectors an entire Noahs Ark of scam artists Alexander Cockburn

Salon Ivins alabi On the 17th Ivins could not have placed the anthrax letter in the Princeton mailbox and made a five oclock appointment back at Fort Detrick with the letterpostmarked the 18th see SalonDr Bruce Ivins caught up in the web of lies and war AnthraxVaccineorg Dr Nass

Cheney Libby Judith Miller Iraq War Propagandists and see Ahmed Chalabi

see Brewster Jennings page and US Senate Select Committee On Intelligence Phase II final report searchable text and Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Reporton the Iraqi National Congress

Miller worked closely with Scooter Libby Plamegate Leakgate amp his Aug 2003 Poem to Miller You went into jail in thesummer It is fall now You will have stories to cover -- Iraqi elections and suicide bombers biological threats and the Iranian nuclearprogram Out West where you vacation the aspens will already be turning They turn in clusters because their roots connect themCome back to work -- and life Until then you will remain in my thoughts and prayers -- With admiration Scooter Libby Fall GuyJuan Cole Bush pressured FBI to blame al-Queda for anthrax attacks Libby deeply involved in biological warfare decisions in the

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Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University Kit Bonds anti-whistle blower anti-accountability bill Senate Bill 3774is the latest piece of legislation allegedly aimed at protecting national security Introduced by Senator Kit Bond (R-MO) it wouldcriminalize unauthorized disclosure of classified information This bill is dangerously vague and provides virtually unlimited discretionto the Department of Justice in deciding whom to prosecute It would be a catastrophe for reporters and the free press Search AIPACRosen Weissman Judith Miller directly related to Rosen Weissman AIPAC trial Oct 28 2008see Judith Millerorg She left the paper (fired) in November 2005 after spending 85 days in jail to defend a reporters right toprotect confidential sources (aided the deception in the outing of Valerie Plame)

Go to AIPAC Rosen Weissman trial Graymail defense

Judith Miller directly related to Rosen Weissman AIPAC trial Oct 28 2008Rosen Weissman AIPAC argue that transferring intelligence secrets to Israel is a First Amendment free speech right rather thanespionage

Go to AIPAC Rosen Weissman trialJuly 17 2005 Woodward Kurtz interview CNN transcripts file KURTZ Judith Miller in jail for protecting her sources an act ofconscience paying a heavy price but isnt there a minimal public sympathy for her because these sources were not exposing wrongdoingas Deep Throat did but were outing a CIA operative This is highly related to the Rosen Weissman AIPAC trialJune 2005 Miller goes to jail search Jailhouse Crock Judith Miller is the Judas of Journalism This article accuser Miller of being afake martyr and actually obstructing justice for personal gain and see Antiwar

The Reagan administration had permitted the provision to Iraq of anthrax precursors Juan Cole from Ames Iowa That is theRepublican Party was proliferating weapons of mass destruction to Saddam Hussein in the 1980s

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WMD Weapons of Millerrsquos descriptions Spoon-fed information about Iraqs WMDs New York Times reporterJudith Miller authored many stories later found to be misleading or downright false By Herbert L Abrams JulyAugust

2004 pp 56-64 (vol 60 no 04) copy 2004 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

June 3 2003 according to a Harris Poll 35 percent of Americans believed that weapons of mass destruction (WMD) had been found in Iraq while 10 percent were not sure in October 30percent were still persuaded although six months of searching had failed to uncover any such weapons How could so many have been convinced in the face of the total absence of evidenceSelected comments from New York Times reporter Judith Millers dispatches from December 2001 through June 2003 provide part of the answer 1]

Miller with a special knack for writing what the Pentagon liked to read was the sole reporter embedded with the 75th Exploitation Task Force which operated Mobile Exploitation Teams(MET Alpha MET Bravo) hunting for WMD in Iraq Her stories which were widely reprinted or reported in other newspapers on cable TV and on talk radio helped convey the impressionto the nation that illicit weapons had been found in Iraq supposedly validating the decision for war

As she and others have explained Ahmad Chalabi an Iraqi expatriate was the source of much of her information some of the time she credited him directly 2] She had mentioned himmuch earlier In an interview in 1998 shortly after Operation Desert Fox (four nights in which the United States and Britain bombed numerous targets in Iraq) she said that Chalabi told herhe had been given only a few hours notice of the impending attack 3]

On December 20 2001 she wrote at length about Iraqi defector Adnan Ihsan Saeed Al Haideri (made available by Chalabis Iraqi National Congress) who personally worked on renovationsof secret facilities for biological chemical and nuclear weapons His] account gives new clues about the types and possible location of illegal laboratories facilities and storage sitesAs Knight-Ridders Jonathan Landay noted on May 18 2004 this article was published three days after CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency officers rejected the defectors account asunreliable on the basis of a failed lie detector test Miller admitted There was no means to independently verify Haideris allegations

On September 18 2002 Millers piece on the UN Monitoring Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) cast doubt on its ability to uncover Iraqi WMD She quoted DavidKay as believing that UN inspectors were on a mission impossible They are weaker than an earlier inspection team according to former inspector Richard Spertzel Inspectors claimedthat Hans Blix UNMOVIC head and the chief chemical and biological weapons inspector had eliminated many of the more aggressive inspectors from his organization

Emphasizing the flaws of the new inspection regime its inability to detect cheating and predicting its failure to find WMD was central to the Bush administrations marginalization ofHans Blix it also supported the administrations argument that it needed to move beyond diplomacy to assure Iraqi compliance

On November 12 2002 Miller highlighted the preparation for and likelihood of Iraqi use of poison gas Iraq has ordered large quantities of a drug that can be used to counter the effects ofnerve gas she wrote According to administration officials If the Iraqis were going to use nerve agent they would want to take such] steps to protect their own soldiers

On December 3 the threat was biowarfare Iraq obtained a particularly virulent strain of smallpox from a Russian scientist she wrote citing an unnamed informant

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Nine weeks before the attack on Iraq on January 12 2003 Miller described the war to come President George] Bush told Iraqi opposition figures on Friday that he favored a shortmilitary occupation after Saddam Hussein is out of power The dissidents assured him that American soldiers] would be greeted with sweets and flowers Referring to an oppositionmeeting to be held in northern Iraq she quoted Ahmad Chalabi This will be an in-your-face-Saddam gathering

On January 24 Miller alluded again to the impotence of the international inspection regime and the usefulness of Chalabis defectors Because international inspectors were unlikely to findevidence that Iraq was hiding weapons of mass destruction she said the Bush administration was preparing its own assessment that would rely heavily on Iraqi defectors Some of the mostvaluable information came from a contractor who fled Iraq in 2001 she wrote This informant Haideri whom Miller had discussed at length on December 20 claimed that chemical andbiological weapons laboratories were hidden beneath hospitals and inside presidential palaces (As Landay pointed out in May 2004 when taken back to Iraq in early 2004 by the IraqSurvey Group Haideri was unable to identify a single site associated with illegal weapons)

Miller added that the White House asked that the information from the defectors be used as part of a bill of particulars to convince skeptical allies and the American public that Iraqsbehavior warranted military action The bill of particulars may be incorporated into President Bushs State of the Union address

Reporting on an interview with Hans Blix on January 30 2003 she noted his contradiction of Secretary of State Colin Powells claim that the inspectors had found that Iraqi officials werehiding and moving illicit materials He had seen no persuasive indications of Iraqi ties to Al Qaeda Blix] challenged President Bushs argument that military action is needed Scores of samples his team had taken across Iraq had turned up no trace of chemical or biological agents

Miller and co-author Julia Preston concluded however that Blixs report to the United Nations was less important for its failure to find evidence of WMD than for its key finding that Iraqhad not provided wholehearted cooperation

Reports from the search team

Millers first report as an embed (specifically assigned to travel with MET Alpha) came from Kuwait on March 19 the day before the war began The administration has deployed mobilelabs to help in the search for WMD she wrote The discovery of such arms officials said would vindicate the administrations decision to go to war

Five days later on March 24 Miller depicted the mission of the search teams as the collection and analysis of samples intended to prove to the court of world opinion that SaddamHussein as President Bush alleges has been hiding unconventional weapons Still in Kuwait on March 27 she described an ammunition storage facility south of Baghdad that remainedsuspicious because chemical or germ weapons might have been made or stored there although none were found A senior Iraqi official said that there were special bunkers a team founda biological hazard sign experts found Soviet-style gas masks

A few days later a military inspection team returned to Kuwait from its first foray into southern Iraq having found tons of conventional] weapons but no trace of chemical or biologicalweapons The experts were not surprised she wrote on April 2 because most of the WMD facilities are closer to Baghdad

By April 4 two weeks into the war the headline was A Nation at War Illicit Arms The text The United States has searched fewer than a dozen of several hundred sites Few if anyhave been sites at the top of the American list

But now the wars purpose was beginning to change On the second day of the war Rumsfeld listed finding Iraqs WMD as second only to the goal of toppling Saddam Miller wrote

A week later capturing terrorists sheltered in Iraq and collecting intelligence on terrorist networks topped Rumsfelds list before the goal of securing Iraqs supposed WMDMeanwhile Miller was still in Kuwait On April 4 she told CNNs American Morning host Bill Hemmer The key to this whole venture is really Iraqi scientists

Finally on April 10 Miller reached southern Iraq At a suspect site sensors registered the presence of chemical agents The agricultural site was first reported as suspicious on April 6after soldiers became nauseated and noticed welts on their hands The Iraqis had gone to great lengths to hide 11 or so 20-gallon drums of a thin clear liquid The liquid in thebarrels turned out to be an organophosphate used in pesticides though a sophisticated detector showed the presence of a nerve agent

The next day Miller reported that in Karbala a team of military experts began examining a cache of sophisticated equipment buried at an ammunition plant Much of the equipment couldbe used for multiple purposes some peaceful some not she wrote of the experts evaluations But it was unclear if the equipment was intended for use in any weapons program she addedA few days later on April 16 she reported that the team had discovered some suspicious items but no smoking gun The team found radioactive material and dual use biologicalequipment that could be used for peaceful or military purposes she wrote Chief Warrant Officer Richard Gonzales remained optimistic We are not going to find just a smoking gun but asmoking cannon Its only a matter of time

Then on April 21 south of Baghdad Millers Eureka moment arrived An Iraqi scientist (whom she admitted she had not been allowed to interview) claimed that Iraq destroyedchemical weapons and biological warfare equipment only days before the war began He] led Americans to a supply of material that proved to be the building blocks of illegal weaponsAccording to Millers report Iraq had secretly sent unconventional weapons and technology to Syria and it was now cooperating with Al Qaeda

The discovery of the buried material the most important discovery to date supports the Bush administrations charges that Iraq continued to develop weapons and lied to the UnitedNations It also provided an explanation for why US forces had not yet turned up banned weapons in Iraq 4]

But by Millers next dispatch on April 23 the object of the exercise had suddenly shifted According to a member of the search team Weve had a conceptual jump We must look at theinfrastructure not just for the weapons

The truth is not perishable Maj Gen David Petraeus told her but timeliness is important

Millers first dispatch from Baghdad published on April 24 dutifully reported what unnamed sources had told her not what she had seen American-led forces have occupied a vastwarehouse complex in Baghdad filled with chemicals where Iraqi scientists are suspected of having tested unconventional agents Officials described] it as filled with broken parts andremnants of equipment consistent with a full-scale laboratory This reporter was not permitted to visit the warehouse Officials believed the information seemed to provide corroboration toaccounts that Saddam Hussein continued expanding his weapons programs while claiming to have dismantled them Miller wrote

Three days later on April 27 her account featured Nissar Hindawi a leading figure in Iraqs biological warfare program in the 1980s who claimed Iraq had produced huge quantities ofliquid anthrax and botulinum toxin This informant had left the program in 1989 before the first Gulf War and was described as now in the protective custody of the Iraqi opposition leader

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Grasping at straws

By April 28 there seemed to be a note of irritation in Millers reporting There are no chemical weapons at a site where American troops said they had found chemical agents and mobilelabs Repeatedly early reports of discoveries come to naught The elaborate system created by Pentagon planners has not worked out she wrote

On May 3 Miller reported that radioactive materials had been detected at a nuclear research facility What was found at Tuwaitha was the largest amount of radiological materials that hasbeen found at a nuclear site in Iraq It] was consistent with industrial or research use looters may have taken anthrax samples

Two days later on May 5 Miller reported that a biologist Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash who had worked in Iraqs suspected biological warfare program had generated considerableexcitement among weapons inspectors here in Iraq A mission was begun today to survey a mysterious white powder The following day she wrote that a top-secret intelligence memowas] found in a room in secret police headquarters The memo described an offer by a holy warrior to sell uranium and other nuclear material to Iraq--presumably lending support toPowell-Bush claims that Iraq had attempted to buy yellowcake from Niger a claim later proved to be derived from clumsily forged documents The search began when 16 soldiers teamed

up with members of the Iraqi National Congress headed by Ahmad Chalabi

Senate Intelligence Committee final report fails to report on McCain support of Chalabiand did Chalabi trick McCain

On May 8 Miller provided cover for Powells description of Iraqi mobile bioweapons laboratories which he had offered in a speech to the United Nations in February 2003 A joint British-American team of experts had concluded that a tractor-trailer truck found in northern Iraq several weeks ago could be a mobile biological weapons lab Miller wrote A defector said it wasfor the production of biological agents The discovery would support the Bush administrations claims that Iraq continued to pursue weapons of mass destruction The labs had beendesigned to produce germ warfare agents she wrote American forces had collected much documentary evidence that suggests there was an active program for weapons of massdestruction

On May 9 Miller reported A team returned today to Iraqi secret police headquarters where the supposed offer to sell uranium had been found] to find that someone had been pickingthrough the basement Members of the Iraqi National Congress led by Ahmad Chalabi managed to secure the equipment Outside the building intelligence analysts found a section of amanual about administration plans to defend Americans against unconventional attacks The material had been faxed from Iraqs United Nations office in New York Miller wrote

Two days later the tractor-trailer had become a smoking gun Miller wrote that experts had concluded that a trailer found near Mosul in northern Iraq in April is a mobile biologicalweapons laboratory although] some experts were still uncertain There might be as many as eight mobile labs in Iraq a clear violation of United Nations sanctions she wrote Thiswas just the kind of smoking gun to substantiate the Bush administrations allegations The configuration of the trailer was similar to the lab described by Secretary Powell in hisspeech to the United Nations in February Miller wrote

On May 12 Millers last dispatch from Iraq recorded the discovery of the strongest source of radiation found so far in Iraq at a long-abandoned test range near Amiriya The material]could be used to make dirty bombs

A different story

During the period from March 18 to May 12 (when Miller was embedded) unilateral or non-embedded reporters conveyed a flavor somewhat at variance with hers The Washington PostsBarton Gellman wrote a series of dispatches during this period An early headline on March 30 read Special Search Operations Yield No Banned Weapons His copy read US forceshave tested 10 of their best intelligence leads and] all the searches have turned up negative On April 5 a Gellman report was headlined Suspicious Sites Provide No Proof Yet Hereported that components found there struck experts as ambiguous at best Two days later Gellman and co-author Rich Atkinson wrote The US Army said today it had tentativelyidentified nerve and other chemical agents But several suspect discoveries have proved to be false alarms they added On April 22 in Hunt for Iraqi Arms Erodes Assumptions Gellmanreported that analysts were increasingly doubtful

On May 10 Gellman reported that what had happened to uranium stores or other chemicals was unclear Seven nuclear facilities in Iraq have been damaged or effectively destroyed bylooting he wrote The next day the headline on his article read Frustrated US Arms Team to Leave Iraq Task Force Unable to Find Any Weapons Erroneous intelligence and poorsite security--dealt the severest blows to the hunt inspectors told Gellman

Back in New York on May 21 little more than a week following the Gellman headline Unable to Find Any Weapons Miller and William J Broad co-authored a report claiming that Iraqigerm-weapons production units had been discovered United States intelligence agencies have concluded that two mysterious trailers found in Iraq were mobile units to produce germs forweapons Miller and Broad wrote The judgment would support some of the evidence that Secretary Powell presented on February 5 to the United Nations a centerpiece of theirargument that Iraq had a well-concealed germ weapons program They added though that Iraqi scientists insisted the units were merely mobile plants to make hydrogen for fillingweather balloons

Two and a half weeks later on June 7 Miller and Broad reported that their smoking guns had gone up in smoke American and British intelligence analysts with direct access to theevidence are disputing claims that the mysterious trailers found in Iraq were for making deadly germs The analysts said] the mobile units were more likely intended for other purposesand charged that the evaluation process had been damaged by a rush to judgment

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At long last the Times inserted a footnote to this piece revealing that Millers agreement with the Pentagon for an embedded assignment allowed the military to review her copy But] no changes were made in the review The last sentence is ambiguous The June 7 article was itself a lengthy review of the issue Did the editors mean that the review was unchangedOr that none of Millers numerous reports had been altered by military censors On April 21 readers were told that the dispatch was held up for three days and then submitted for a check bymilitary officials Those officials asked that details of what chemicals were uncovered be deleted wrote Miller Are readers to understand that a deletion is not a change

The critics

Over time Millers reporting from Iraq attracted increasing attention On April 21 Jack Shafer of Slatecom accused her and the Times of shortchanging readers by neglecting to detail theterms of censorship--or accreditation to report as Miller called it--that they had accepted Nevertheless Shafer credited her with a scoop for her report on the Iraqi scientist who witnessedthe Iraqi destruction of WMD

But the scoop which was never verified was described by one of Shafers e-mail respondents as unsubstantiated hearsay speculation possibly completely made up Shafer in a July 25piece titled The Times Scoops That Melted suggested that the executive editor of the Times should launch an investigation Had Miller grown too close to her sources to be trusted orto recant

The identical suggestion--that the Times undertake a critical review of its WMD reporting--was made a month later in Editor and Publisher 5] The Times eventually did

On May 13 the World Socialist Web site (wswsorg) posted a long piece characterizing Millers April 21 story on the Iraqi scientist as seemingly a stunning vindication of the Pentagon andthe Bush administration Yet as author Bill Vann pointed out Millers only source was the US military and she had done nothing to verify the claims she repeated Vann suggested thatMillers listing as a speaker for the Middle East Forum a right-wing lobbying group could be a violation of Times ethics guidelines which barred reporters from participating in groups thatseek to shape public policy

Soon after Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post reported on a conflict within the Times staff Quoting an irate e-mail from Baghdad bureau chief John Burns concerning a Chalabi storythat he had assigned to another reporter Kurtz included some of Millers response shedding even more light on how dubious her sources might have been Ive been covering Chalabi forabout 10 years He has provided most of the front page exclusives on WMD to our paper More troubling still it turned out the army unit in which she was embedded was usingChalabis Intel and document network for its own WMD work 6]

By early June 2003 according to Barton Gellman of the Washington Post it became apparent that Task Force 20 a covert army Special Forces unit drawn from Delta Force had beenperforming a major role in the search for Iraqi WMD It was able to work more rapidly with better communication more Arab linguists less chance for site-looting strong detectortechnology and full-time access to more technologically advanced helicopters Members of Task Force 20 frequently reached sites ahead of the military site survey team to which Millerwas assigned Nonetheless they had come no closer to finding WMD than did Millers unit MET Alpha 7]

Articles critical of Judith Millers reporting appeared in rapid succession in the Columbia Journalism Review the New York Observer The Nation on the Internet and in the New York Post8] The Washington Post published a detailed account depicting Millers use of her leverage as the Times representative to serve as middleman between MET Alpha and Chalabi Accordingto a senior staff officer she had an enormous impact on the units mission and not for the better The unit was turned into what one official called a rogue operation Millers presencewas detrimental and she was always issuing threats of going to the New York Times or to the Secretary of Defense 9] A New York Times insider was quoted portraying her reportingas a train wreck adding shes considered an embarrassment 10]

Millers frustration at the final emptiness of the powerful misleading rhetoric of her reports as well as of the critical chorus boiled over on July 20 in a report that she labeled A Chronicleof Confusion in the US Hunt for Husseins Chemical and Germ Weapons She found fault in everything but herself Chaos she wrote disorganization interagency feuds disputeswithin and among various military units and shortages of everything from gasoline to soap plagued the post-war search for unconventional weapons The Bush administration usedflawed intelligence that was often stunningly wrong

Promising sites were looted Special Forces alienated potential Iraqi sources The Pentagon was] reluctant to make the mission an urgent priority The Pentagon initially erred inputting a field artillery brigade in charge Former inspectors from UNSCOM the pre-1998 UN inspection unit] especially those who had interviewed Iraqis should be involvedThe task force had few analysts who knew Iraq or its weapons programs well she wrote

If readers were misled it was all the fault of the US military and surely Miller would share no blame In this curiously indignant exercise Miller both revealed and excused the limitationsof her accounts

Duty to readers

On September 25 Miller reported that David Kay head of the Iraqi Survey Group had issued his interim report His team had not found any of the unconventional weapons cited by theBush administration as a principal reason for going to war she reported along with Douglas Jehl

But the weapons had to be found On October 2 Miller and co-author James Risen wrote The Bush administration is seeking more than $600 million from Congress to continue the hunt The total price tag for the search will approach $1 billion And while the task force with which Judith Miller was embedded had worked out of an abandoned palace the Iraq SurveyGroup apparently spent its first weeks installing air-conditioned trailers a new dining facility state-of-the-art software and even a sprinkler system for a new lawn After three monthswork by the new search team no illegal weapons had been found but the group had discovered some intent to develop such weapons according to Kay

William E Jackson Jr wrote three accounts of Millers reporting that appeared on the Editor and Publisher Web site on July 2 September 23 and October 2 Jackson described Millersreports as a series of exaggerated stories that merely endorsed the Bush administrations claims on WMD in Iraq Miller he concluded had crossed the line from that of reporter to that ofa member of a team she referred to as my unit

There is the smell of compromised reporting he wrote tainted Iraqi sources surrendering detached judgment to the Pentagon He was puzzled that a star reporter caught in highlymisleading reporting on WMDs would be so protected from the consequences of her actions After all she was the drop of choice for a politically motivated leaker

Jackson added that military officials and journalists in Iraq believed Miller had an exclusive deal with the Pentagon And he asked did she break credible hard news--or only flack forhawks in the government an all-too-familiar role for her over the last two years

Other Jackson conclusions When her work is examined systematically it is frequently found to be simply wrong on the facts And Miller is not a neutral nor an objective journalist Oras Slates Shafer suggested in his August 19 report Judith Miller Duped Miller had swallowed the claims of unreliable Iraqi defectors and the Times had given them great prominence

A detailed analysis in the AugustSeptember 2003 American Journalism Review summarized many of the Miller articles and quoted Miller deriding the complaints about her stories as sourgrapes

In February 2004 Michael Massing wrote a passionate evocation of the medias failure to record the doubts of many informed sources about the evidence of WMD before the war Journalistslike Judith Miller he wrote were far too reliant on sources sympathetic to the administration In an interview Miller had said My job is to tell readers of the New York Times what thegovernment thought about Iraqs arsenal Massing suggested that it was also a journalistic function to evaluate official claims While his focus was primarily on the pre-war period healluded to some of the criticism of Millers depiction of the search for WMD during the war 11]

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It seems apparent that Miller was well-positioned to view an inept search by inexperienced members of the armed forces who were poorly trained poorly equipped and ill served in the chaseby uncertain and inaccurate intelligence Instead of relaying that message she filled her days with suspicions rather than facts chattered repeatedly about MET Alpha and MET Bravounits and made it clear that spectacular discoveries of illicit weapons would soon be achieved The smoking gun was always about to be uncovered

Millers early enthusiasm for the search was stimulated by her unusual access to Chalabis various defectors and informants allowing her to weave a fabric full of rhetorical triumphs ofexaggeration while protecting her integrity by the high art of attribution to sources unknown 12] Of her best-known source Chalabi it has recently been stressed that officials warned inMay 2002 that some of the information might be unreliable or fabricated A favorite of pro-war Pentagon officials he is deeply distrusted by many rank-and-file professionals in the CIADefense Intelligence Agency and State Department 13]

One analysis of the information furnished to Miller by defectors concluded that it proved ultimately useless 14] A second summarized the discrediting of Millers source and story onaluminum tubes for centrifuges for a new nuclear weapons program in Iraq 15] The Defense Intelligence Agency had already concluded that much of the information it received fromIraqi defectors including information provided by the Iraqi National Congress Chalabis group] was of little or no use 16] (In the last few months Chalabi a member of the American-appointed Iraq Governing Council has come under increasing criticism for his ties to the Iranian government and possible misuse of US government financial support)

The Times ultimately agreed that some of its reports had depended too heavily on information from Iraqi defectors and specifically named Chalabi in a May 26 editors note in which itacknowledged its faults Looking back we wish we had been more aggressive in re-examining the claims as new evidence emerged--or failed to emerge Editors at several levels should have been challenging reporters and pressing for more skepticism the note read

No accountability--not then not now

As Vice President Dick Cheney candidly admitted during the first Gulf War when he served as defense secretary I do not look on the press as an asset Frankly I looked on it as a problemto be managed 17] During the second Gulf conflict more than 600 reporters were managed as embeds agreeing to sign contracts with the military limiting when and what they couldreport Each was able to provide a small slice of the war almost instantaneously access was good and the general feeling was that it worked well for both sides 18] But were they able todraw the line between propaganda and journalism

Or did the 2100 unilaterals--independent reporters whose movements were relatively unrestricted--provide more objective accurate dispatches The analysis that would answer thisquestion has not been performed What seems clear is that if the war had extended well beyond three weeks with greater casualties among the troops and the embeds there might have beena significant clash between the need for accurate reporting and the Pentagons public relations goals

On January 29 2004 David Kay in his final appraisal told the Senate that we were all wrong and that the Iraq Survey Group had found no WMD in Iraq His conclusion makes it all theclearer how unconfirmed reports helped to justify a preemptive war seemed to document intelligence that in the words of David Kay was wrong and served to support a false assertionof a grave threat to the United States

When Kay resigned the administration quickly replaced him with Charles Duelfer who redefined the mission In its simplest terms he told Congress on March 30 2004 my strategy isto determine the regimes intentions

In her preference for hyperbole over dispassionate reporting Miller made a choice It was not that she created the news she reported but rather that she evoked a tone and urgency that wereunwarranted by the fragility and self-interestedness of her sources She was careful to include caveats qualifiers disclaimers and occasional doubts as an index of balance But justifying thewar and confirming her pre-war claims appear to have been more important to her than serving the interests of her readers And it is not a trivial issue if these motives were at odds withher] professional duties 19]

Unfortunately it is likely that Miller who seems to have been unconcerned about even the appearance of conflict of interest will continue to consider any allusions to her problematicreporting--as in the foregoing pages--unwarranted Im very comfortable with all of my reporting and very proud of it she has said 20] She stands by her dispatches and her view thatcritical comments about them are beat ing] up on the messenger who willingly relayed unverified government handouts without making independent checks or sometimes even issuingnecessary retractions 21] It is even more unfortunate that it took her editors so long to acknowledge their failure in the matter

1 The words in quotations contained in Millers articles were usually attributed to poorly identified sources such as senior Bush officials an official one official experts WhiteHouse officials foreign scientists an informant whose identity has not been disclosed Iraqi participants dissidents Iraqi defectors Iraqi scientists intelligence officialsBritish planners and experts an Iraqi general a site survey team the team leader an elite American team the teams chemical expert the exploitation team weaponsexperts the biological specialist and so on All of these and many other nameless sources fed a constant stream of information to Miller that frequently ended up on the front page or inthe front section of the New York Times On rare occasion she would describe a site or a discovery without attribution presumably indicating she had observed it herself

2 Howard Kurtz Intra-Times Battle Over Iraqi Weapons Washington Post May 26 2003

3 Interview with Diane Dimond CNBC Upfront Tonight December 29 1998 Chalabi was considered the favorite Iraqi expatriate of the Pentagon and the administration

4 Nine and a half months later James Woolsey cited Millers report to explain David Kays failure to find WMD There had been a last minute cleaning up (Wall Street Journal Feb 22004) Woolsey had claimed in 2001 that the United States could equip an Iraqi opposition force to overthrow Saddam in a matter of months We would have to have some forces in wewill be very popular Interview with Chris Matthews CNBC December 20 2001

5 William E Jackson Jr Real NY Times Scandal Hyping WMDs in Iraq wwweditor andpublishercom June 17 2003

6 Kurtz Intra-Times Battle

7 Barton Gellman Covert Unit Hunted for Iraqi Arms Amid Raids and Rescue Task Force 20 Failed to Pinpoint Weapons Washington Post June 13 2003

8 John R McArthur The Lies We Bought Columbia Journalism Review May June 2003 Sridhar Pappu New York Observer June 22 2003 Russ Baker Scoops and Truth at theTimes The Nation June 27 2003 Steve Gilliard So Judith Miller Works for the New York Times and Not DOD Right Daily Kos June 25 2003 Keith J Kelly Times Brass PutsLeash on Miller New York Post June 29 2003

9 Howard Kurtz Embedded Reporters Role in Army Units Actions Questioned by Military Washington Post June 25 2003

10 Keith J Kelly Times Brass Puts Leash on Miller New York Post June 29 2003

11 Michael Massing Now They Tell Us New York Review of Books Feb 26 2004 pp 43-49

12 Geneva Overholzer ombudsman at the Washington Post believes that one of the most important preventive measures against deception and fraud in the media would be less frequentuse of anonymous sources PBSs News Hour March 22 2004

13 Jonathan S Landay Key Source on Iraqi Bioweapons Was Deemed Dubious Philadelphia Inquirer Feb 6 2004

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14 Jack Shafer Judith Miller Duped Slatecom August 29 2003

15 Massing Now They Tell Us

16 James Risen Data from Iraqi Exiles Under Scrutiny New York Times Feb 12 2004

17 Bill Katovsky and Timothy Carlson Embedded The Media at War in Iraq (Guilford Connecticut Lyons Press) p XII

18 Tiffany Ayers The War in Primetime Military Officer February 2004

19 Judith Lichthenberg Truth Neutrality and Conflict of Interest Business and Professional Ethics Journal Spring-Summer 1990 pp 75-78 20 Kelly Times Brass21 MassingNow They Tell Us Back to top ^

WMD Weapons of Millerrsquos descriptions Spoon-fed information about Iraqs WMDs New York Times reporter Judith Miller authored many stories laterfound to be misleading or downright false By Herbert L Abrams JulyAugust 2004 pp 56-64 (vol 60 no 04) copy 2004 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Herbert L Abrams is a member-in-residence at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University JulyAugust 2004 pp 56-64 (vol 60 no 04) copy 2004 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

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New York Times Wrangling Impedes Transfer Of Civilian Anthrax Vaccine

By JUDITH MILLER Published August 20 2004 Despite pledges two years ago to maintain a stockpile of drugs to protect Americans in the event of a bioterrorism attack the federalgovernment has so far set aside only 159 vials of anthrax vaccine for the civilian population enough for only 530 people according to congressional and administration officials

The officials said the failure to transfer more of the vaccine from military to civilian control was caused by legal and bureaucratic wrangling among government agencies They also cited thegovernments desire to buy a new vaccine that is potentially both cheaper and more efficient That vaccine has not yet been approved by the Food and Drug Administration

Spokesmen for the Pentagon and the Department of Health and Human Services denied that the delay would imperil the well-being of civilians saying that BioPort the nations soleproducer of licensed anthrax vaccine was storing nearly a million doses -- enough for more than 330000 people

The bottom line is if there is a civilian crisis that would require vaccination of the population there is enough anthrax vaccine to do that said Bill Pierce a spokesman for the Departmentof Health and Human Services It would just take a phone call to get that vaccine transferred from the Pentagon to the stockpile he said dismissing the delays to paperwork that will getdone

But a spokesman for BioPort and Pentagon officials said that the doses being stored are intended for the military which announced in June that it was expanding its anthrax and smallpoxvaccination program If those doses were used by civilians in an emergency officials said military vaccinations would have to be curtailed or scaled back

Michael Zamiara the chief financial officer of BioPort in Lansing Mich said the military had first call on its vaccine We must run a business he said While the Department of Healthand Human Services had indicated it wanted the vaccine for the civilian stockpile he said the agency had yet to pay us for it or tell us how much it wants to buy

Officials also said that the Bush administration had not implemented an interagency agreement signed last April a copy of which was provided to The Times in which the Pentagon agreedto provide at least two million doses of anthrax vaccine to the civilian stockpile by the end of this fiscal year or Sept 30

It is a shocking lack of preparedness to have only 159 vials set aside for civilian use when we know that Al Qaeda would not hesitate to launch an anthrax attack against the United Statessaid Rep Jim Turner Democrat of Texas the ranking member of the House select committee on homeland security which has been investigating the state of the nations strategic stockpiles

Jerome Hauer a former assistant secretary with the Department of Health and Human Services in the Bush administration said the months of infighting over such issues as who wouldindemnify BioPort for its vaccine reflected a lack of priority on biodefense We now have bureaucrats and lawyers running bioterrorism preparedness said Mr Hauer who heads abiodefense center at George Washington University

The vaccine issue has been complicated by Congresss recent transfer of control of the civilian stockpile from the Department of Homeland Security back to the Department of Health andHuman Services Many scientists at the health agency favor a new recombinant vaccine that may require fewer shots and be faster to make

Summary of evidence laid out by prosecutors Summary of evidence prosecutors laid out against suspected anthrax killer The Associated Press AP News Aug 07 2008 0637 EST

Summary of evidence against suspected anthrax killer Bruce Ivins as outlined by Jeffrey Taylor the US attorney in Washington

_Investigators identified in early 2005 that the anthrax used in the mailings came from a single flask of spores known as RMR-1029 Ivins created and solely maintained it Investigatorsruled out others who could have accessed the flask but they could not rule out Ivins

_Ivins was one of the few scientists who could create spores of the concentration and purity used in the attacks

_In the days before the mailings Ivins worked off-hours alone at night and on the weekend in the lab where the anthrax spores and production equipment were stored He previously hadnot often done so He could not adequately explain his reasons for being there

_Ivins behaved in a way and said things that suggested consciousness of guilt He also submitted a questionable sample of anthrax to the FBI and attempted to divert attention away fromhimself

_Ivins had a history of mental health problems and was having a hard time professionally in the summer and fall of 2001 because an anthrax vaccine he was working on was failing

_Ivins had frequently driven to other places to send packages in the mail under other names to disguise his identity

_Ivins was a prolific writer to Congress and the media which were targeted in the attacks Authorities found 68 letters to these entities in a search of his house on Nov 1 2007

_An e-mail written by Ivins used language similar to that of one of the anthrax letters

_The envelopes used in the mailings were very likely sold in 2001 at a post office in the Frederick Md-area Ivins had a post office box in Frederick from which the type of envelopeswith print defects were sold

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Judith MillerWikipedia Judith Miller (born January 2 1948) is an American journalist Miller based in Washington DC was a prominent New York Times reporter with access to top USgovernment officials Her coverage of these officials especially regarding the Bush administrationrsquos conclusions about Iraqrsquos alleged Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Program andher involvement in the Plame Affair made her a conspicuous media personality The work that Miller and Michael Gordon did in presenting the case for WMDs has been proven false TheNew York Times apologized publicly for their poor reporting Ms Miller lost her job over these reporting blunders though Mr Gordon has remained a reporter for the New York TimesMiller announced her retirement from The New York Times on November 9 2005 In July of 2005 Miller was jailed for contempt of court for refusing to testify before a federalgrand jury investigating a leak naming Valerie Plame as a covert CIA agent Miller did not write about Plame but was reportedly in possession of evidence relevant to the leakinvestigation According to a subpoena Miller met with an unnamed government official mdash later revealed to be I Lewis Scooter Libby Vice President Cheneys Chief of Staffmdashon July8 2003 two days after former ambassador Joseph Wilson published an Op-Ed in the Times criticizing the Bush administration for twisting intelligence to justify war in Iraq (PlamesCIA identity was revealed in a column by conservative political commentator Robert Novak on July 14 2003)

Senator Grassley Eighteen QuestionsWhat is the date (month and year) that the FBI determined that the anthrax came from a specified flask in Ivinsrsquos lab (RMR-1029)When (month and year) did the FBI determine that Dr Hatfill never had access to the anthrax used in the killingsHow did the FBI determine that Dr Hatfill did not have access to the anthrax used in the killings Was that because the FBI determined that Dr Hatfill no longer worked atUSAMRIID when the powder was madeWas Dr Hatfill or his counsel informed that Dr Hatfill had been cleared of any involvement in the anthrax killings before the Department of Justice offered a settlement to himWas he informed before signing the settlement agreement with him If not please explain why notWas Judge Walton (the judge overseeing the Privacy Act litigation) ever informed that Dr Hatfill had been eliminated as a suspect in the anthrax killings If so when If not pleaseexplain why notWas Dr Ivins ever polygraphed in the course of the investigation If so please provide the dates and results of the exam(s) If not please explain why notOf the more than 100 people who had access to RMR 1029 how many were provided custody of samples sent outside Ft Detrick Of those how many samples were provided toforeign laboratoriesIf those with access to samples of RMR 1029 in places other than Ft Detrick had used the sample to produce additional quantities of anthrax would that anthrax appeardistinguishable from RMR 1029How can the FBI be sure that none of the samples sent to other labs were used to create additional quantities of anthrax that would appear distinguishable from RMR 1029Please describe the methodology and results of any oxygen isotope measurements taken to determine the source of water used to grow the spores used in the anthrax attacksWas there video equipment which would record the activities of Dr Ivins at Ft Detrick on the late nights he was there on the dates surrounding the mailings If so please describewhat examination of the video revealedWhen did the FBI first learn of Dr Ivinsrsquo late-night activity in the lab around the time of the attacks If this is powerful circumstantial evidence of his guilt then why did thisinformation not lead the FBI to focus attention on him rather than Dr Hatfill much sooner in the investigationWhen did the FBI first learn that Dr Ivins was prescribed medications for various symptoms of mental illness If this is circumstantial evidence of his guilt then why did thisinformation not lead the FBI to focus attention on him rather than Dr Hatfill much sooner in the investigation Of the 100 individuals who had access to RMR 1029 were anyothers found to suffer from mental illness be under the care of a mental health professional or prescribed anti-depressantanti-psychotic medications If so how manyWhat role did the FBI play in conducting and updating the background examination of Dr Ivins in order for him to have clearance and work with deadly pathogens at Ft DetrickAfter the FBI identified Dr Ivins as the sole suspect why was he not detained Did the US Attorneyrsquos Office object to seeking an arrest or material witness warrant If not didanyone at FBI order a slower approach to arresting IvinsHad an indictment of Dr Ivins been drafted before his death If so what additional information did it contain beyond the affidavits already released to the public If not then whenif ever had a decision been made to seek an indictment from the grand juryAccording to family members FBI agents publicly confronted and accused Dr Ivins of the attacks showed pictures of the victims to his daughter and offered the $25 millionreward to his son in the months leading up to his suicide These aggressive overt surveillance techniques appear similar to those used on Dr Hatfill with the apparent purpose ofintimidation rather than legitimate investigation Please describe whether and to what degree there is any truth to these claimsWhat additional documents will be released if any and when will they be released

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Woodwardbook smoking gun type documents(declassifies the secrets) of the trumped-up evidence in the march to war more Mother Jones MotherJones outfrontNation Germ Boys and Yes MenRense Guess Who Owns BioPort lets begin withAdm William J Crowe Jr It seems that back whenBush 41was setting up Osama Bin Laden as aFreedom fighter Crowe and the Joint Chiefs wereselling American made weapons-grade Anthrax toSaddam Hussein in the hopes that he would use it onIranSourceWatch Carlyle Group Carlyles directorshipreads like George Walker Bushs inaugural ball invitelist Reagan Secretary of the Treasury James Bakerserves as a senior counselor and Richard G Darmanformer director of the Office of Management andBudget under George Herbert Walker Bush is amanaging director Former President George Bushhas served with Carlyle and Colin L Powell beforebecoming Secretary of State made an appearance onbehalf of the firmThis Modern WorldTrilateral-Commission lovearth networkTruthoutPolaris InstitutePolitical Friendster Ronald Roughead Iraq WarPropagandist Science Applications InternationalCorporation CIAS SAIC hmmm Salon BioPort was founded in 1998 by Ibrahim El-Hibri a Lebanese financier Along with Fuad hisUS-educated son El-Hibri formed BioPort bypurchasing vaccine-making facilities of the state ofMichigan for $2475 million The companys onlyproduct was the anthrax vaccine called BioThraxwhich it sold chiefly to the US military In mid-2004 the company reorganized as EmergentBioSolutionsSalon Glen GreenwaldSalon Glen Greenwald The FBIs selective releaseof documents in the anthrax case (updated below -Update II - Update III) After obtaining a federaljudges approval to unseal the documents in theanthrax investigation the FBI has released selecteddocuments relating to its case against Bruce IvinsThose documents can be viewed hereSchemaRoot Judith MillerSchemaRoot Bob WoodwardThatcher Carlucci missing link between CIA WallStreet American weapons firms Bin LadenVinnel mercenariesWayne Madsen Report Bruce Ivins a microbiologistat the US Army Medical Research Institute for

Bradblog blog poster Washington Postchanges story (original) Aug 1 2008Ivins had no access to dry powderedanthrax at the Fort Detrick lab where heworked and (changed) Aug 2 2008 Asa researcher for the Armys main lab forstudying bioterror agents Ivins had easyaccess to anthrax bacteria including thespecific strain of Bacillus anthracis used inthe attacks on media outlets andcongressional offices in the fall of 2001Judith Miller links to Ivins through a vastbody of false reporting on Iraq WMD andwar mongering leading up to the invasion ofIraq and hoax anthrax letter WikipediaHow are patents and Emergent BioSolutionsfinances affected by these eventsAnthraxVaccine Blogspot timely updatesIvins died of an overdose of acetaminophen codeine his attorney Paul F Kemp Was he suicidedWMR has learned that the late FBI counter-terrorism chief John ONeill and the chiefFBI agent investigating Israel UrbanMoving Systems employees in the NewYork and New Jersey area prior to and after911 were aware of Israels possession ofFort Detrick-type militarized anthraxWMR reported that anthrax was discoveredat the Urban Moving Systems warehouse inWeehawken New Jersey The warehousewas later identified as a Mossad frontoperation The anthrax letters sent to theSenate and American Media in Boca RatonABC News NBC News CBS News andthe New York Post in New York and theSenate were all postmarked from TrentonNew Jersey full articleFrom the Wilderness Jerome Hauer NowOn BioPort Board of Directors DemocracyNow amp The Nation Completely Blow theREAL Story Nation and Democracy NowDr Philip M Zackerie (Dr Zack) theculprit according to Heneghan Zionist more amp WikipediaThe main witness in the case has checkeredpast more on DuleyIs the Ames strain identical to the USAMRIID strain McClatchy andsummary of evidence Wired DispatchThe kappa kappa gamma sorority issue is asmokescreen and irrelevant moreAnthrax attacks were timed to push thePatriot Act thru Congress The Senateanthrax was originally produced at the USArmy Dugway Proving Ground in Utah andsent to Detrick WMR more search termsBrian Ross ABCNews Soviet defectorBiopreparat Alibek Alibekov HadronAdvanced BioSystems NIH grant$800000 link to CIA Hadron presidentEarl Brian PROMIS ProsecutorsManagement Information System Inslawillegal distribution to foreign governmentsintergovernmental stonewalling of crucialdata FBI footdragging WMR see Bush Clinton death list Dr BruceIvins addedPolitical Friendster Ronald Roughead IraqWar Propagandist Science ApplicationsInternational Corporation CIAS SAIC search SAIC Judith MillerFort Detrick personnel are onwhistleblower status concerningknowledge in the investigations Herbert Abrams New York Timesreporter Judith Miller authored many stories

McCain linking anthraxattacks to Iraq November 2001 and in 1989Brsquonai Brsquorith BASFBattelle Memorial Institute The BBC reported thatBattelle Memorial Institute (a favorite Pentagon andCIA contractor and for whom Alibek served asbiological warfare program manager in 1998) conducteda secret biological warfare test in the Nevada desertusing genetically-modified anthrax early last Septemberright before the terrorist attacks The BBC reported thatPatricks (William Capers Patrick III was part of theoriginal Fort Detrick anthrax development program)paper on sending anthrax through the mail was also partof the classified contractor work on the deadly bacterialagent source WMR

Bayer AGBin Laden Family Saudi Arabia ties to Bush 41 Bush43 investmentsBioPort vaccine maker Lansing Michigan once ownedby CarlyleBloomberg The deaths from anthrax sporesanonymously mailed to news organizations andmembers of Congress shook the US seven years ago asthe nation was still reeling from the Sept 11 terroristattacks Postal facilities and some US Senate officeswere closed during the initial investigation Televisionnews anchors Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather weretargeted along with US Senators Tom Daschle andPatrick LeahyCarlyle GroupCarlyle-Calpers CDCCIACiproCiticorp Saudi Arabia linksCNN Laurie Mylroie is the author of Study ofRevenge Saddam Husseins Unfinished War whichoutlines her case that Iraq had a central role in the 1993World Trade Center bombing She served as an adviseron Iraq to the 1992 Clinton presidential campaignMylroie is currently vice-president of Information forDemocracy and the publisher of Iraq News fileCrowe Admiral W CroweDavid Rubenstein William Conway Daniel DAnielloall founders CarlyleDCMilitaryFBIEmergent BiosolutionsFDAFort Dodge Ames Iowa65207106228 (Fox Newsdc10m Ide District of ColumbiaWashington

FOX News The FBI has narrowed its focus to aboutfour suspects in the 6 12-year investigation of thedeadly anthrax attacks of 2001 and at least three ofthose suspects are linked to the Armyrsquos bio-weaponsresearch facility at Fort Detrick in Maryland Amongthe pool of suspects are three scientists mdash a formerdeputy commander a leading anthraxscientist (Ivins) and a microbiologist mdash linked tothe research facility known as USAMRIID The FBIhas collected writing samples from the three scientists inan effort to match them to the writer of anthrax-lacedletters that were mailed to two US senators and at leasttwo news outlets in the fall of 2001 a law enforcementsource confirmedFuad El HibriGenetics Institute

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